<?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[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,  We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon or two,   Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who works his land will have abundant food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who works his land will have abundant food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17632]]></link><description><![CDATA[My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45706]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63720]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44440]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter of going out and doing it. Finally I'm doing it and I'm even more hungry to do even more, there are more things I can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the science of things which are not repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63490]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the science of things which are not repeated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12594]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11560]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25228]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30716]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those,  I might suspect, and take th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those,  I might suspect, and take th' alarm,   You bus'ness is but to inform;    But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near,     You have a wrong sow by the ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was lost by 2003 was about evenly split among the other four groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally only Christianity has taught us the true place and function of suffering. The Stoics tried the hopeless little game of denying its objective reality, or of declaring it a good in itself (which it never is); and the Pessimists attempted to revel in it, as a food to their melancholy, and as something that can no more be transformed than it can be avoided or explained. But Christ came, and He did not really explain it; He did far more: He met it, willed it, transformed it; and He taught us to do all this -- or, rather, He Himself does it within us, if we do not hinder the all-healing hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25506]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20667</guid></item></channel></rss>