<?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[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for her. We're trying to break that perception, because obviously our median age is not 14.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62440]]></link><description><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside an oasis, there are many little deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inside an oasis, there are many little deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50266]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35397]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38198]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually had to witness this, knowing that when you get into a locomotive, there is no steering wheel. As you can imagine, they are pretty shook up about this whole thing, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one delights more in revenge than a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50471]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one delights more in revenge than a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47776]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   And frights the school-boy from his play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48939]]></link><description><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart,   Which rank corruption destines for their heart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger room in the center. We have to move from a room seating 250 to one that holds 560 people because of the interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49383]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33136</guid></item></channel></rss>