<?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 crash like this is a glaring reminder of how fragile our system is and how there is no back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crash like this is a glaring reminder of how fragile our system is and how there is no back up. We're at near-gridlock at every single rush hour. When we get a major incident like this, we're at a complete standstill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52790]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42912]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern beim Tadel, dann ist er's.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great effect on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely be back in India for the next one-day international.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; the lord turns His face toward you and gives you peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48049]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College students have a lot of things they are concerned about, but the fact that 39 percent is most concerned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40253]]></link><description><![CDATA[College students have a lot of things they are concerned about, but the fact that 39 percent is most concerned with the war in Iraq is worth studying because that's about 20 percentage points higher than the general public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very poor shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4294]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:  Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much will always wanting be To him who much desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city of our God; Life, love, and joy still gliding through, And watering our divine abode: That sacred stream, thine holy word, That all our raging fear controls; Sweet peace thy promises afford, And give new strength to fainting souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se igitur expetitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22199]]></link><description><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing;  Out of the fragrant heart of bloom  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing;  Out of the fragrant heart of bloom   The apple-tree whispers to the room,    "Why art thou but a nest of gloom     While the bobolinks are singing?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries   For what has been and is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave   Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud    Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard:     Where human folly sleeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never exaggerate. I just remember big. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never exaggerate. I just remember big.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2808]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us.   And foolish notion;    What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,     And ev'n devotion!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right from the beginning, ... he said, 'You should do all your routines in that voice.' And I said, 'But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right from the beginning, ... he said, 'You should do all your routines in that voice.' And I said, 'But I can't stand that voice.' And he said, 'But it's funny. It makes people laugh.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always be little and sweet,   And a sting should be felt in its tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63646]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,   Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;    The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,     The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;      And when too short the modish shoes are worn,       You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25934</guid></item></channel></rss>