<?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[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16609]]></link><description><![CDATA[If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16265]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May,  Sitting in a pleasant shade   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May,  Sitting in a pleasant shade   Which a grove of myrtles made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill Valley game was big. She's solid in so many areas. She's just become more polished and become a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill Valley game was big. She's solid in so many areas. She's just become more polished and become a better shooter and ball handler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding,    And applauding,     Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37621]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle will fall,   Down comes the baby, cradle and all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see only ourselves reflected inthose around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of ourown. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within usall. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world willchange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52685]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57404]]></link><description><![CDATA[All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   From out of the sunset-lands,    So bountiful, so merciful,     So sweet of soul is she;      And over all the world she draws       Her cloak of charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - Franklin J. Dickman,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain   Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.    His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve     In soft repose; on him the balmy dews      Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16047]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21009]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63907]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at your board,   Without one hour of sickness or disgust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22592]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40274</guid></item></channel></rss>