<?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[Ellen has demonstrated her extraordinary ability to connect with the television viewing audience. ... We are delighted to have her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ellen has demonstrated her extraordinary ability to connect with the television viewing audience. ... We are delighted to have her back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8340]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much is bad and meaningless. The Christian answer is that this is a good world gone wrong, but with a memory of what it should have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these positive results reflect a very good start to 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and science have their meeting point in method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and science have their meeting point in method.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51435]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets,   And simple faith than Norman blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is thicker than water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is thicker than water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have to buy players like Real Madrid and AC Milan so we can't say our philosophy is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have to buy players like Real Madrid and AC Milan so we can't say our philosophy is just to use young players, ... We will bring players in from outside and inside but it is up to me and the academy to make sure the players are good enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not easy being green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not easy being green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pedophile. You know that. I'm gonna look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pedophile. You know that. I'm gonna look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trial is totally meaningless. It's a political issue, not a legal issue. The procedures and the outcome were decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trial is totally meaningless. It's a political issue, not a legal issue. The procedures and the outcome were decided a long time ago. The people behind this want a lynching; they don't want justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie told often enough becomes truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie told often enough becomes truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49956]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm  That gnaws the bowels of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm  That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730]]></link><description><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, which you would probably expect him to do. But he's getting more and more refined all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24793]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24793</guid></item></channel></rss>