<?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[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.   The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry,    The wild waves reach their hands for it.     The wild wind raves, the tide runs high,      As up and down the beach we flit,       One little sand-piper and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37578]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I know them, and I trust them, and they're capable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, 'tis in a manner done already; For many carriages he hath dispatched  To the seaside, and put his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, 'tis in a manner done already; For many carriages he hath dispatched  To the seaside, and put his cause and quarrel   To the disposing of the cardinal;    With whom yourself, myself, and other lords,     If you think meet, this afternoon will post      To consummate this business happily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were still 385 alcohol-related crashes this year and 418 deaths in those crashes... that's more than one a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were still 385 alcohol-related crashes this year and 418 deaths in those crashes... that's more than one a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing --- the animation, the style, the tremendous stature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35370]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,  The Douglas in red herrings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,  The Douglas in red herrings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512]]></link><description><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791</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><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write without pay until somebody offers to pay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write without pay until somebody offers to pay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting method is to extrapolate the recent past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those were still the same shots I normally take, but my shot wasn't falling. But in no way was this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those were still the same shots I normally take, but my shot wasn't falling. But in no way was this a bad season for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40363</guid></item></channel></rss>