<?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[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and will be amended in future material on the subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is the much-awaited correction that many people have been looking for in recent years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my credit on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you can make some birdies out there. I started with a 62 in my last European win and the club manager who was at the Mines Resort in Malaysia is now running this club here. It could be a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2244]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/98]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/98</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church-going bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church-going bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66653]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8631]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys,   And Christmas shortens all our days:    Sometimes with oysters we combine,     Sometimes assist the savory chine;      From the low peasant to the lord,       The Turkey smokes on every board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41067]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel the upward movement in body weight,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High drug prices have created a barrier between people and the drugs they need to stay healthy. We need state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40904]]></link><description><![CDATA[High drug prices have created a barrier between people and the drugs they need to stay healthy. We need state laws to help knock those barriers down -- unfortunately the drug industry continues to stop those efforts at every turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to do as good as this next year. I'm going to go out, try my hardest and keep that same mind frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart  Is true as steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15633]]></link><description><![CDATA[You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart  Is true as steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's very much difference between Murray State, which is picked to win, and Morehead State [which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's very much difference between Murray State, which is picked to win, and Morehead State [which is picked last].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Same religion that saves - Damns You ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Same religion that saves - Damns You]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57278]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21195]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21195</guid></item></channel></rss>