<?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[The sun will set without thy assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun will set without thy assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inventory is definitely moving up there, but we're still in the middle of a seller's market. Homes aren't selling within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inventory is definitely moving up there, but we're still in the middle of a seller's market. Homes aren't selling within a week, but they are selling. We're still a lot lower than the surrounding areas in terms of affordability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is the only law which genius knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is the only law which genius knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward. The young Crab replied: Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it. The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child. Example is more powerful than precept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put none but Americans on guard tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put none but Americans on guard tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -Samuel Ullman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A concept is stronger than a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A concept is stronger than a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65999]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39729]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war begins, then hell openeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war begins, then hell openeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2428]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost and die altogether), therefore in each of us, nature hath a deep horror of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49647]]></link><description><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winged words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winged words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60483</guid></item></channel></rss>