<?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[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57063]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49791]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent;   The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown:    Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,     Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven once saw   Which North and South do bound,    The stars above would make thee known,     If men here silent were;      The sun himself cannot forget       His fellow traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore   Came out by the same door wherein I went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49349]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66837]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17721]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you wassmiling. Live your life so that when you die, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53691]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you wassmiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling andeveryone around you is crying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824]]></link><description><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to all. So, beware of single-tax proposals. The U.S. government blows more money than any single tax can generate. The key is to tax multiple bases, disparate in nature, and with simple flat rates. That is a system both fair and sustatinable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21023]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in the corner that we may not be playing hockey. And that scares me more then anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17989]]></link><description><![CDATA[When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23089]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23054]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56509]]></link><description><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it?s a good step for Afghanistan. Writing off any debt is a help in a country after 30 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it?s a good step for Afghanistan. Writing off any debt is a help in a country after 30 years of war and devastation. We?re staring from nothing, like a baby taking its first steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16725]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was lost by 2003 was about evenly split among the other four groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21165]]></link><description><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4398]]></link><description><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,   Or all the toil is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26764]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have a manager, I didn't have a band, I was just a songwriter. But I needed to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have a manager, I didn't have a band, I was just a songwriter. But I needed to get my foot in the door, so I took the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I celebrate my sexuality and it is something that I exude on stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42724]]></link><description><![CDATA[I celebrate my sexuality and it is something that I exude on stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42724</guid></item></channel></rss>