<?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[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54743]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'CSI effect' is not something that we're happy about, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'CSI effect' is not something that we're happy about,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63887]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30515]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1715]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting better, so we can try to extend the season as long as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a dream or grave apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;  The relics of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12803]]></link><description><![CDATA[As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;  The relics of mankind, secure at rest,   Open every window to receive the guest,    And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43706]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are people who are choosing between food or paying the rent, people who are choosing between food and buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33384]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are people who are choosing between food or paying the rent, people who are choosing between food and buying their child a pair of shoes, food and heat in the wintertime. They?re seniors who are choosing whether to buy food or pay for medicine. Folks are going entire days without anything to eat at all. They are literally going to bed hungry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they are the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours away!    Languidly the Autumn wind     Stirs the forest leaves,      From the field the reapers sing       Binding up their sheaves:        And a proverb haunts my mind         As a spell is cast,          "The mill cannot grind           With the water that is past."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19384]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65565]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55990]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896]]></link><description><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18413</guid></item></channel></rss>