<?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[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox   His torch of purple fire:    . . . .     And when the punctual May arrives,      With cowslip-garland on her brow,       We know what once she gave our lives,        And cannot give us now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63724]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes,  Low in the heather blooms   Sweet will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes,  Low in the heather blooms   Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be!    Emblem of happiness,     Blest is thy swelling-place--      O, to abide in the desert with thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history that a leader has told the people the bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what we're going to do with this television ad as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years but we won both games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39217</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[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctors gave her over--to an ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctors gave her over--to an ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29732]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. We only work with things that are proven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to make it well/   My mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still claim that Great Falls is the biggest league community in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38526]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still claim that Great Falls is the biggest league community in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to get a broad representation of the student body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to get a broad representation of the student body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14669]]></link><description><![CDATA[By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our perspective, this has worked very well. People have concerns about contractors working side by side with government workers. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40413]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our perspective, this has worked very well. People have concerns about contractors working side by side with government workers. If you are going to conduct business today, that is the model you will see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27024</guid></item></channel></rss>