<?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[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the reason they think it's softer because they're hitting 8-irons [yesterday] and they were hitting 6-irons there [Wednesday]. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the reason they think it's softer because they're hitting 8-irons [yesterday] and they were hitting 6-irons there [Wednesday]. We haven't watered any of the greens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12118]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for our nation to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought (against). It is a time to remember his fight for freedom, equality and dignity of all races and all people. He was an incredible man ... he forced our nation to look inside and face our own flaws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage   Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues    Have I liked several women; never any     With so full soul but some defect in her      Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed,       And put it to the foil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37189]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5817]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls    Up the walls     Yet he never falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56555]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament of beauty is suspect,   A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.    So thou be good, slander doth but approve     Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;      For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,       And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really a serious concern when the captain shows his disappointment. I have talked with coach Dav (Whatmore) about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34856]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really a serious concern when the captain shows his disappointment. I have talked with coach Dav (Whatmore) about the matter and I can assure you that everything would be okay. I do not want to make any comments on the surface because I was not there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,  But mice and rats, and such small deer,   Have been Tom's food for seven long year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every town needs a place to gather. We hope that this is just the beginning in terms of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every town needs a place to gather. We hope that this is just the beginning in terms of what the park has to offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66134]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney     Is not to be despaired of for our money;      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,       The sky not falling, think we may have larks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the opportunity was there I felt it and went for it. I tipped him and threw the legs at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40318]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the opportunity was there I felt it and went for it. I tipped him and threw the legs at the end and finished it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643]]></link><description><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643</guid></item></channel></rss>