<?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[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better than expected. Semiconductors are going to get a boost from seasonal trends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14166]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16188]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51504]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24391]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5812]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prettier fall then carnival ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prettier fall then carnival]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46729]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49572</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[Someday will never come and take you by the hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday will never come and take you by the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44148]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55744]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8716]]></link><description><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26728</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 torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[why wait for the weekend to have fun? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61503]]></link><description><![CDATA[why wait for the weekend to have fun?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5193</guid></item></channel></rss>