<?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[Moonlight is sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with a gun with a silencer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53274]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song;  But the man worth while is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56692]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song;  But the man worth while is the one who will smile   When everything does dead wrong;    For the test of the heart is trouble,     And it always comes with the years,      But the smile that is worth the praise of earth       Is the smile that comes through tears.        . . . .         But the virtue that conquers passion,          And the sorrow that hides in a smile--           It is these that are worth the homage of earth,            For we find them but once in a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29023]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled ""anti-Semitic.""]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may    Occasionally say,     I never never use a big, big D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prodded her to do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prodded her to do it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27092]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8812]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a game. So the clock is ticking, and it's not going to stop. It's going on nine or 10 days since he's pitched a game. These are all the things you can't make up for. All you can do is, first and foremost, get him healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17664]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5871]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2741]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice to hold them to three or four and out in their territory and let our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice to hold them to three or four and out in their territory and let our offense take a knee. But this was a good test for our defense. I think we kind of needed that to get some confidence. I'm glad it ended up this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start to expect things from you, and it all goes downhill from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612]]></link><description><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23571]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put new wine into old bottles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put new wine into old bottles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, 'Enough with the self-medicating.' Seriously. What ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, 'Enough with the self-medicating.' Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with life? Life is pain. Life is inconvenience. Life is a tall, cool glass of "F**k You". Step away from the Prozac and Xanax, and Drink Up, Bitches. Refills are on the house...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2455</guid></item></channel></rss>