<?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[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh will have a world-class facility to help celebrate the achievements of African-Americans, educate visitors on the contributions of African-Americans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh will have a world-class facility to help celebrate the achievements of African-Americans, educate visitors on the contributions of African-Americans to the arts, culture, business and industry. The project will be a showcase for Southwestern Pennsylvania, and a tourist attraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but we didn't make any mistakes behind her. If we continue to do this, we're going to surprise some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61238]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not thirsted for Thee: And now cold billows of death surround me, Buffeting billows of death astound me,  Wilt Thou look upon, wilt Thou see  Thy perishing me?" "Yea, I have sought thee, yea, I have found thee,  Yea, I have thirsted for thee, Yea, long ago with love's bands I bound thee: Now the Everlasting Arms surround thee,  Through death's darkness I look and see  And clasp thee to Me.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a way, it's been nice because we're all learning and growing. Once we got past the stage where we were making errors, we started to understand what we are capable of doing. There's always a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66498]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53609]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole world will praise him and all Indians will be forever indebted to him if he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole world will praise him and all Indians will be forever indebted to him if he does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna felicitas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48493]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna felicitas!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55646]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113]]></link><description><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38351]]></link><description><![CDATA[On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to learn a lot from this. It's going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32449]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to learn a lot from this. It's going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we have up there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48437]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Fer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56106]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Fer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make children good is to make them happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make children good is to make them happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6004</guid></item></channel></rss>