<?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[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15155]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a good way to get a point but a bad way to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rush to rebuild in the southern states, Americans should pause to think more deeply about what it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rush to rebuild in the southern states, Americans should pause to think more deeply about what it would take to create more equitable and healthier communities in New Orleans and throughout the affected area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53236]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. He gave me this advice, his companion replied. Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43166]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47759]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time writing in New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time writing in New York.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up to, is great. I hope to be in their seats in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interest and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55458]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60958</guid></item></channel></rss>