<?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[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, under the current administration, that it is 'policy first, science second.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the true price of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the true price of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the worst performance of the season for me. I couldn't skate clean. I do not understand really what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the worst performance of the season for me. I couldn't skate clean. I do not understand really what happened to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I plan, and plan, my hair Is gray before I know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51725]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I plan, and plan, my hair Is gray before I know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every Art it is good to have a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every Art it is good to have a master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2008]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back and get us. ... Giving somebody an open 3-pointer. Not being in the right place on a play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29352]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14616]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was real happy with Gill; he came in and gave us some good innings. He throws strikes which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was real happy with Gill; he came in and gave us some good innings. He throws strikes which is good and we have been wanting to get ho, some work because we feel he can be a guy for us. He will definitely get some innings when we start getting more games in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11107]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49318]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is going to gain market share in future? When we polled those in the industry 70 percent of respondents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is going to gain market share in future? When we polled those in the industry 70 percent of respondents said Asian manufacturers, and 51 percent said European would gain. Only 20 percent said North American manufacturers would gain,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its presentperfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfectand not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and Iam not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24457]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. -Christina Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years,   On one he leans: some call her Memory,    And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,     With deep mysterious accords: the other,      Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams       A light divine and searching on the earth,        Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,         Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,          Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp           Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked            But for Tradition; we walk evermore             To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[If] there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8415]]></link><description><![CDATA[[If] there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55991]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,   Opened in airs of June her multiple    OF golden chalices to humming birds     And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44482</guid></item></channel></rss>