<?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[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every citizen is king under a citizen king. [Fr., Tout citoyen est roi sous un roi citoyen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every citizen is king under a citizen king. [Fr., Tout citoyen est roi sous un roi citoyen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</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/3887]]></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/3887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12388]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66760]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't read too much into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't read too much into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had to practically drag the kids out of there to let another group in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had to practically drag the kids out of there to let another group in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of me and I will be there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of me and I will be there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21753]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27711]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers,   How justly doth a lie    Draw on its head despair!     Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers      The boldest and the strongest still was I.       Although so fair,        Therefore from Heaven         A stronger perfume unto me was given          Than any blossom of the summer hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out of the ones we already have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're living an unhappy life and you probably think this is normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651]]></link><description><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found this fact to be very profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;   The horse doth with the horseman run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were no civilian or firefighter injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were no civilian or firefighter injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58035]]></link><description><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last   To basest things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20764</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[Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear the powerful call.   And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item></channel></rss>