<?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[Stolen kisses are always sweetest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21212]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44195]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor lone woman. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor lone woman. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40924]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/423]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls had to play in the rain for most of the first nine holes and the wind was gusting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls had to play in the rain for most of the first nine holes and the wind was gusting for the whole day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealist: a cynic in the making. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealist: a cynic in the making.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2700]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42674]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50250]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184</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[Feast of All Souls   To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls   To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see It through a little cranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44479]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20164]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   I should cut off the nobles for their lands,    Desire his jewels, and this other's house,     And my more-having would be as a sauce      To make me hunger more, that I should forge       Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,        Destroying them for wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1762]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat,   In adoration of the setting sun,    Chants forth his evening hymn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58490]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61610]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a real grind and our kids did pretty well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a real grind and our kids did pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building will provide a state of the art performance hall and a rehearsal space for musical performance and instruction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building will provide a state of the art performance hall and a rehearsal space for musical performance and instruction for large orchestral ensembles and choral groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please Note: "Ouch" is not a term used in Judo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please Note: "Ouch" is not a term used in Judo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11670]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11670</guid></item></channel></rss>