<?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[In robe and crown the king stepped down, To meet and greet her on her way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51701]]></link><description><![CDATA[In robe and crown the king stepped down, To meet and greet her on her way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages,  And two in fifty scarce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages,  And two in fifty scarce agree   On what is pure morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From what I recollect, the audiences in India are very discerning and know how to appreciate real music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30822]]></link><description><![CDATA[From what I recollect, the audiences in India are very discerning and know how to appreciate real music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that lovely face who view,   They should not ask if truth be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62945]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a learning curve for all these young men. One has to hope that they learn quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a learning curve for all these young men. One has to hope that they learn quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,         The two-inched hook is better, I know,          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1673]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to thenest.Why not come and chat with me, said the Grasshopper,instead of toiling and moiling in that way?I am helping to lay up food for the winter, said the Ant,and recommend you to do the same.Why bother about winter? said the Grasshopper; we have gotplenty of food at present. But the Ant went on its way andcontinued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had nofood and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the antsdistributing every day corn and grain from the stores they hadcollected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My confidence (defensively) definitely grew as the season went on, and the last month and a half, two months did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35270]]></link><description><![CDATA[My confidence (defensively) definitely grew as the season went on, and the last month and a half, two months did wonders for my confidence. Being out there every day after the All-Star break was important, especially when I knew I had to prove everybody wrong, which I've been having to do since college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more references in the Koran thanthe Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.-Julia W-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16728]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more references in the Koran thanthe Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.-Julia W-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city,   As lovely as seems    To some bard in his dreams,     The soul of his latest love-ditty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me:  And while my open nature trusted in thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me:  And while my open nature trusted in thee,   Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes,    And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear.     Thou hast betray'd me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and mischievous words and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8570]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and mischievous words and deeds. From all these, sin can be known, as a tree can be known from its fruits. Yet these outward signs are not sin itself, the wages of which are death. Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. Shall we call it our pride or our laziness, or shall we call it the deceit of our life? Let us call it for once the great defiance which turns us again and again into the enemies of God and of our fellowmen, even of our own selves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This could potentially increase the gridlock in Collier, which is already bad, and negate the progress they've made in recent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39730]]></link><description><![CDATA[This could potentially increase the gridlock in Collier, which is already bad, and negate the progress they've made in recent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13693]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences -- a courageous trust in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences -- a courageous trust in the great purpose of all things, and pressing forward to finish the work which is in sight, whatever the price may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.'] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.']]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,  While the slant sun of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,  While the slant sun of February pours   Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!    The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps     And the broad arching portals of the grove      Welcome thy entering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36086]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19728</guid></item></channel></rss>