<?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[Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona... I understand what it is to be vulnerable, and I understand what it is to be strong. So anybody who bashes 'sentimental' is missing it. I've seen the toughest guys in the world cry. That macho thing is an old folktale. I'm not afraid of it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12708]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the first time I was behind the wheel of a fire truck, I was awestruck by the responsibility. Sure you can run a stoplight, but you have to make sure the intersection is clear before you do. That's when I realized each level you reach in the fire department brings on new responsibility. And there are more people under your wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598]]></link><description><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To affirm is to make firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To affirm is to make firm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32994]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's bad news for China and Pakistan. This creates suspicion, which is what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32386]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody really knew how this would be received in Israel. We were sure there would be protests, people saying, 'How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody really knew how this would be received in Israel. We were sure there would be protests, people saying, 'How can you show such a thing in Tel Aviv?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58787]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking;  But there is something when man's eye appears   Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a continuation of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a continuation of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18481]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10118]]></link><description><![CDATA[People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20865]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies   Upon the paths of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29920</guid></item></channel></rss>