<?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[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28676]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21680]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,  Oh! 'tis a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,  Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,   Filled up with horror all, and big with death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divine grace was never slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divine grace was never slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focus, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focus,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You want someone nondescript. The ideal spy is 5-foot-6 and kind of dumpy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how complicated this industry can make saying 'Hello,' ... actually will save consumers money because it's simple, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how complicated this industry can make saying 'Hello,' ... actually will save consumers money because it's simple, it's any day and all day, it's straightforward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living   Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46668]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the pressure of haste, uneasiness, ill-temper, self-complacency, and conceit, to continue intending justice. Power corrupts; the "insolence of office" will creep in. We see it so clearly in our superiors; is it unlikely that our inferiors see it in us? How many of those who have been over us did not sometimes (perhaps often) need our forgiveness? Be sure that we likewise need the forgiveness of those that are under us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44202]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engel's most famous book. Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are "now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible." Henceforth "all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially closed." This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new standards will provide these growing firms with continued access to SBA's small business development assistance, helping them succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new standards will provide these growing firms with continued access to SBA's small business development assistance, helping them succeed and serve their customers into the 21st century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4339]]></link><description><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no time like the pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21691]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no time like the pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38118</guid></item></channel></rss>