<?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[A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780]]></link><description><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the eye or with Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the eye or with Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19504]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm quite happy with where we are considering we lost six seniors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm quite happy with where we are considering we lost six seniors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void   The world can never fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50518]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63480]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked well together. There was a lot of nice passing today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked well together. There was a lot of nice passing today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him some time to adjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31266]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mills and wives ever want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mills and wives ever want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290]]></link><description><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, and made significant progress in resolving the company's legal challenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bears with the wicked, but not forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27963]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bears with the wicked, but not forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful power to prevent attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring eyes:   Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.    Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,     Such screams to hear, such sights to see!      My brain, my brain,--I know, I know       I am not mad but soon shall be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18116]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320</guid></item></channel></rss>