<?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[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow   In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63794]]></link><description><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tehran is very expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tehran is very expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools tell us if they want it or not and then we route it around to as many schools as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Schools tell us if they want it or not and then we route it around to as many schools as we can. You pick us basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   What I aspired to be,    And was not, comforts me:     A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels,a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/759]]></link><description><![CDATA[James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels,a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day unfolds it and one day destroys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48611]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day unfolds it and one day destroys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59827]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie told often enough becomes the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weight loss is not just about behavior and willpower; it's biological. There is a coordinated mechanism in the body ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weight loss is not just about behavior and willpower; it's biological. There is a coordinated mechanism in the body ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â designed to prevent you from starving to death ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that makes weight loss difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where annual elections end where slavery begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61022]]></link><description><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We firmly expect to achieve progress and advance beyond agreements reached at ... previous talks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28848]]></link><description><![CDATA[We firmly expect to achieve progress and advance beyond agreements reached at ... previous talks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49450</guid></item></channel></rss>