<?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[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After five up weeks, it's ok to have a week like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37124]]></link><description><![CDATA[After five up weeks, it's ok to have a week like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40820]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5797]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636]]></link><description><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,   No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue display   Less bright than they,    But when the bare and wintry woods we see,     What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have 140 sergeant positions, ... That's a lot. In a city such as Elk Grove, they'll have perhaps 18. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35554]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 140 sergeant positions, ... That's a lot. In a city such as Elk Grove, they'll have perhaps 18.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39160]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29900]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the best birthday present -- to give something back to the musicians who have given this country so much, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33059]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the best birthday present -- to give something back to the musicians who have given this country so much,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love - that's not so bad either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love - that's not so bad either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it will be technically feasible to have a large-size OLED TV by Super Bowl 50. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it will be technically feasible to have a large-size OLED TV by Super Bowl 50.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a strange and wonderful place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a strange and wonderful place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56055]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happened very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41370]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happened very quickly, giving us very little time to react.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41370</guid></item></channel></rss>