<?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[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[had everything to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29904]]></link><description><![CDATA[had everything to live for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35447]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect them to be blockbusters if they produced enough to supply developed nations and undeveloped nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17150]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39545]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happened very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41370]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happened very quickly, giving us very little time to react.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29715]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long  That it's had it head bit off by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long  That it's had it head bit off by it young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got kind of sloppy in the fourth quarter. They shut off Matt Shakespeare but we were able to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37358]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got kind of sloppy in the fourth quarter. They shut off Matt Shakespeare but we were able to get plenty of looks at the cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28422]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. -Charles Colton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. -Charles Colton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24165]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13993]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65437]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not your expenditure exceed your income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not your expenditure exceed your income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not I am what I appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not I am what I appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature could   So fair a creature make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed by the market. Especially once victory is attained, which I think it would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31066</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></channel></rss>