<?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[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain is fraught:    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/933]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization and profit go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization and profit go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smart, but never show it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smart, but never show it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2195]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my animals and the environment; it is hard to go from farm life to city life in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my animals and the environment; it is hard to go from farm life to city life in a few hours. But I would do it for Minnie. We will do whatever it takes for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been found   By some to be the most profound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52493]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a D in English, I did a hairdressing course and a beauty certificate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2869]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way things are going in the world and in America -- allowing people to do what they like, creating their own religion and philosophy -- those people are going to pay for it. We don't want that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of whose who took part in the ballot should be between 10 and 11 million voters, according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of whose who took part in the ballot should be between 10 and 11 million voters, according to our first estimates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57290]]></link><description><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin   War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of voters in Iraq's 18 provinces reached 9,784,954 from the total of 15,568,702 registered, for a turnout rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of voters in Iraq's 18 provinces reached 9,784,954 from the total of 15,568,702 registered, for a turnout rate of 63.78 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together and make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item></channel></rss>