<?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[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what isimpossible with talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what isimpossible with talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17454]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, we're not going to let this go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, we're not going to let this go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better bend than break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better bend than break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, said the Horse; if any remains out of what I am noweating I will give it you for the sake of my own superiordignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in theevening, I will give you a little sack full of barley. The Assreplied, Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me alittle matter now. will by and by confer on me a greaterbenefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     Love stays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't slam the door shut when we had some chances, but a coach once told me that a win's a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4847]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .   By fairy hands their knell is rung,    By forms unseen their dirge is sung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail   Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664]]></link><description><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. •Anonymous  Given a choice between two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. •Anonymous  Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The both of them, they released the best of the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The both of them, they released the best of the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful than this marble sleep;   It hears a voice within it tell:    Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.     'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,      But 'tis not what our youth desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for our acceptance today rest not upon a serious application of the methods of scientific scholarship nor upon a serious intuitive appreciation of the Gospels as a whole in their natural context, but upon a radical distaste for the supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027]]></link><description><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought they might enjoy that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought they might enjoy that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219</guid></item></channel></rss>