<?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[Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be so brief as to become obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be so brief as to become obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to talking to Mike. I'm hoping for a positive outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to talking to Mike. I'm hoping for a positive outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9076]]></link><description><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60414]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62009]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all is won that all desire to woo,   The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14217]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot more weapons than just her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its tightening cycle. That's a reason to sell dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the swallows homeward fly, When the roses scattered lie,  When from neither hill or dale,   Chants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4234]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the swallows homeward fly, When the roses scattered lie,  When from neither hill or dale,   Chants the silvery nightingale:    In these works my bleeding heart     Would to thee its brief impart;      When I thus thy image lose       Can I, ah! can I, e'er know repose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have betterroad maps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have betterroad maps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6021]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's brown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That golden key That opes the palace of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14203]]></link><description><![CDATA[That golden key That opes the palace of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63606]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era for describing the journey of a woman,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kind of kept the momentum going from last week and just took that into here, at a place where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kind of kept the momentum going from last week and just took that into here, at a place where I enjoy playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19797</guid></item></channel></rss>