<?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[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23437]]></link><description><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,  Bear on your wings and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,  Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain is fraught:    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the summer cost increases. Unfortunately, they're already in the stratosphere and still headed north.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great surprise to get these players back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great surprise to get these players back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and there are too many lawsuits, those companies will withdraw from the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16865]]></link><description><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I have all these pieces of history of his story. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I have all these pieces of history of his story. And I'm trying to assemble them into a complete package.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. We've been making them all year. The bottom line is when you get good looks against a good team, you have to knock them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die grosste Tugend und die schlimmsten Hunde, still.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call it so,   Nor I, nor they themselves, do know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472]]></link><description><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,   And horrow heavy sat on every mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2901]]></link><description><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la soif e'en va en beuvant."]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sets an example in practice with her hard work, and just getting herself prepared every time she plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34439]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sets an example in practice with her hard work, and just getting herself prepared every time she plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21555]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62328]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500</guid></item></channel></rss>