<?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[I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11123]]></link><description><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:  And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense is solid, and it's more athletic and faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense is solid, and it's more athletic and faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure this agreement is a fair solution for the clubs involved and for the player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure this agreement is a fair solution for the clubs involved and for the player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7657]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am used to do so; I shall never do otherwise if I am left to myself'. If I fail not, then I give God thanks, acknowledging that the strength comes from Him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179]]></link><description><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   Et le buste    Survit la cite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12283]]></link><description><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor cows frozeneglected in a blizzardThey dug them upand ate their gizzards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor cows frozeneglected in a blizzardThey dug them upand ate their gizzards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49688]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a fishermen need there be If fishes could hear as well as see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a fishermen need there be If fishes could hear as well as see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--  Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--  Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell,   As eager to anticipate their grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, and every star,   Displayed in full and glorious manner!    Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying!     Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42948]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge legs and peep about   To find ourselves dishonorable graves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43884</guid></item></channel></rss>