<?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[Abundance does not spread; famine does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45411]]></link><description><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24240]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think we got away from attacking like we had. They had 20 turnovers, but we didn't take advantage of as many of them as we should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46653]]></link><description><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam   The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--    A home, if such a place may be,     For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,      On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,       And only seeketh her rocky lair        To warm her young and to teach them spring         At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soule needs few things, the body many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soule needs few things, the body many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem  Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you have access to a distribution network and ATMs that is almost national. From my point of view there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you have access to a distribution network and ATMs that is almost national. From my point of view there is a benefit of being able to bank with my bank anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more self-love than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more self-love than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19599]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57167]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50174]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want,with whom you want, as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want,with whom you want, as much as you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link, ... My guess is that (Merkel's) Christian Democrats might be marginally more in line with the U.S. position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61672]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   'Twill make your courage rise,    Twill make a man forget his wo;     'Twill heighten all his joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46337</guid></item></channel></rss>