<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50601]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,   And the children stood watching them out of the town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The muscles built up by my system aren't the kind that turn into knots of gristle after middle age and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The muscles built up by my system aren't the kind that turn into knots of gristle after middle age and give their owner rheumatic misery, which is generally the ultimate payoff for super athletes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the poor man mind his tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the poor man mind his tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043]]></link><description><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he does have an alcohol problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he does have an alcohol problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;  Others aver, to him, that Handel   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;  Others aver, to him, that Handel   Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.    Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be     'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44097]]></link><description><![CDATA[I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She didn't ask for this. It was a public safety issue and she just wanted to eliminate any perception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36578]]></link><description><![CDATA[She didn't ask for this. It was a public safety issue and she just wanted to eliminate any perception of an ethical breach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's overreaching on many levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's overreaching on many levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the thirst of youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the thirst of youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart must now be grieved to see   The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/77]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/77</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Administration’s willingness to consistently abandon the truth has done great damage. Americans are less willing to listen – less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Administration’s willingness to consistently abandon the truth has done great damage. Americans are less willing to listen – less likely to trust or take anything that is said in Washington seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17052]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42047]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7687</guid></item></channel></rss>