<?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[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   Sang the robin, the Opechee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51805]]></link><description><![CDATA[His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated!  Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!   What triumph! hark!--what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated!  Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!   What triumph! hark!--what pain!    . . . .     Again--thou hearest?      Eternal passion!       Eternal pain!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9539]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the time they are in high school, it turns up as a serious injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away.  The rose that lives its little hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away.  The rose that lives its little hour   Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel has opened the gates to hell by assassinating one of our leaders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel has opened the gates to hell by assassinating one of our leaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New things are fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49644]]></link><description><![CDATA[New things are fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44596]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/828]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked him if he had any ideas for movies that he could star in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My twin and Iwere wombmatesand then roommates.Some day our bodieswill be tombmates.(as their souls will be togetherwith those of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15643]]></link><description><![CDATA[My twin and Iwere wombmatesand then roommates.Some day our bodieswill be tombmates.(as their souls will be togetherwith those of their husbands in paradise).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61647]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857]]></link><description><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29083</guid></item></channel></rss>