<?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[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,    Thy skilled to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23713]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45571]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him   And but one to bid him go.    When lips invite,     And eyes delight,      And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,       Persuade delay,--        What boots to say         Forego me now, come to me soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have been feuding for months. That's not a surprise to anyone. We've prepared for that. We've built that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have been feuding for months. That's not a surprise to anyone. We've prepared for that. We've built that reality into our production plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838]]></link><description><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38262]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of the game. You have to lay it on the line and get it done and those who make the plays win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still progressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still progressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country that at least two of the identified terrorists so far were people known to intelligence and immigration agencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33860]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next set of opportunities and values are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38344]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   That's how the light gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17729]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5349]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are four types of people: Smart and lazy, Smart and full of energy, Stupid and lazy, Stupid and full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5654]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are four types of people: Smart and lazy, Smart and full of energy, Stupid and lazy, Stupid and full of energy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni  De nihilo nihil, in nihilum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni  De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank the Lord for the air she got. God is alive. He looks after all of us. You just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33729]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank the Lord for the air she got. God is alive. He looks after all of us. You just have to have faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469</guid></item></channel></rss>