<?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[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273]]></link><description><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a possibility that we will see some form of rationing with the conditions being as bad or worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a possibility that we will see some form of rationing with the conditions being as bad or worse than many people thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disappointing to see a family member hurt. I want him to have as big a year as I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38182]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disappointing to see a family member hurt. I want him to have as big a year as I want to have for myself. But he's a great player and I know that he's going to be fine, so I trust that he's going to be back to 100 percent pretty soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got to see himself in a situation where he was just as strong and perhaps even stronger than the other favorites. If there hadn't been that flat bit half way up the climb, I actually think he could have taken the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62143]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5910]]></link><description><![CDATA[By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part, the deciding factor in whether or not parents do well is how able they are to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33039]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part, the deciding factor in whether or not parents do well is how able they are to understand that it's the illness, not the child, creating the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to find the right combination of what will ultimately be our best group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36009]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to find the right combination of what will ultimately be our best group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27937]]></link><description><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/120]]></link><description><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate work. That's why I got married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate work. That's why I got married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42441]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poison is drunk out of gold. [Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poison is drunk out of gold. [Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56813]]></link><description><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for more university partners in Iowa City to provide our graduates with more options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37624]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for more university partners in Iowa City to provide our graduates with more options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -- and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,  And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5237]]></link><description><![CDATA[With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,  And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11191]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols ofhuman failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21797]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols ofhuman failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21797</guid></item></channel></rss>