<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There's a way to do it better - find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64033]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a way to do it better - find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23244]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A dry jest, sir.  (Andrew:) Are you full of them?   (Maria:) Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want people to know that this happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want people to know that this happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28962]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use, you wouldn't be offering the opt-out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;       And as imagination bodies forth        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing          A local habitation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great believer makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach not to play him in Game 3. It wasn't like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just have to keep playing hard. We can't get all excited about where we are now, then come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39440]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just have to keep playing hard. We can't get all excited about where we are now, then come out and not play well. If we just come out each game and play our hardest, then we can stay in control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was   "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;  Turn giddy and be holp by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51464]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;  Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;   One desperate grief cures with another's languish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21464]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1673]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That dude is huge! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That dude is huge!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19623]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys   His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;    While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,     Displays her cleanly platter on the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather and a post-December rebound in new activity will likely boost construction payrolls. Retail employment should also enjoy a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather and a post-December rebound in new activity will likely boost construction payrolls. Retail employment should also enjoy a post-holiday boost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our great need, to be more like Christ, that His likeness may be seen in our lives; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7196]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our great need, to be more like Christ, that His likeness may be seen in our lives; and this is just what is promised to us as we yield ourselves in full surrender to the working of His Spirit. Then, as we draw nearer to Christ, we shall be drawn nearer to His people; and in our search for unity with the members we shall be drawn closer to the Head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14296]]></link><description><![CDATA[From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way of the Heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called] OPLAN 3600 ... unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34312]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called] OPLAN 3600 ... unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and other organizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again.  'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8645]]></link><description><![CDATA[England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again.  'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;   'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;    A Christmas gambol oft could cheer     The poor man's heart through half the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37260]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37260</guid></item></channel></rss>