<?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[We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52270]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a good execution play on their part and maybe a little over aggressive on our part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the task when many share the toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the task when many share the toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59547]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30671]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time when I was growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50809]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. I went out fast, but it was hard to maintain it by myself. So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. I went out fast, but it was hard to maintain it by myself. So I just ran to win today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change theirmotive to service in order to change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is the threat of conflict which can establish peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60520]]></link><description><![CDATA[One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/195]]></link><description><![CDATA[All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll see small businesses growing around all of this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4504]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4504</guid></item></channel></rss>