<?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[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5823]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being selected to guide this historic property through its next phase of development is an honor and an exciting opportunity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being selected to guide this historic property through its next phase of development is an honor and an exciting opportunity. Our goal is to develop a project that honors the historical significance and small-town charm of Young's Farm and the surrounding area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't want to include that provision in the original document because they were afraid it would deter sales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37239]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't want to include that provision in the original document because they were afraid it would deter sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  All the rest have thirty-one   Excepting February alone:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  All the rest have thirty-one   Excepting February alone:    Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,     Till lap year gives it twenty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to avoid an arrow shot in one's sight; but hard to escape one aimed in secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to avoid an arrow shot in one's sight; but hard to escape one aimed in secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot live by incompetence alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot live by incompetence alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn Into earth's lap does throw  Brown apples gay in a game of play,   As the equinoctials ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn Into earth's lap does throw  Brown apples gay in a game of play,   As the equinoctials blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a celebration of the water that is not romantic. It's a celebration of water within the context of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a celebration of the water that is not romantic. It's a celebration of water within the context of the time we live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to piece together the last few days, hours of this woman's life. [The former doctor] is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37731]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to piece together the last few days, hours of this woman's life. [The former doctor] is a person of interest at this point. We would like to speak to him about the fact we found a dead body in his house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58226</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[I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12725]]></link><description><![CDATA[My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3748]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47152]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19943]]></link><description><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33115]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17155]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17155</guid></item></channel></rss>