<?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[I consider myself more exportant than important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9669]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65062]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55812]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate.  [Ger., Wir haben lang genug geliebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate.  [Ger., Wir haben lang genug geliebt,   Und wollen endlich hassen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round,  And thought that when I came to lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round,  And thought that when I came to lie   At rest within the ground,    'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June     When brooks send up a cheerful tune,      And groves a joyous sound,       The sexton's hand, my grave to make,        The rich, green mountain-turf should break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25971]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46215]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48775]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phoebus, is my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it burststhrough it will blow up everything in its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free handset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/573]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49019</guid></item></channel></rss>