<?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[Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]   - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]   - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59530]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12089]]></link><description><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so much. I didn't put her photo in a frame where I could see it. I stored it all away. I kept them, and every once in a while I'd look through them for a few minutes and then put it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance deepened, our interactions deepened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance deepened, our interactions deepened. It was fun to get another whack at it, and we all know what we're doing a little bit more this time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the worlda portion of its lost heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21838]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the worlda portion of its lost heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36513]]></link><description><![CDATA[New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on the hope that the index will keep touching record highs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18323]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18842]]></link><description><![CDATA[These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough for any high school team to come up with six pitchers or more. It's tough to play six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough for any high school team to come up with six pitchers or more. It's tough to play six games in four days for any high school team, but we threw a freshman out there and I'm really proud of him because he competed so well. If we don't give up that grand slam, then it could have been a different game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth dikes and there are more in danger of collapse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth dikes and there are more in danger of collapse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit lucid proof   That he is honest in the sacred cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about  The other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3402]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about  The other four in wondrous motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52078</guid></item></channel></rss>