<?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[The beginning is the most important part of the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hadn't really thought about it, but I wonder how many people spent the same kind of days here a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hadn't really thought about it, but I wonder how many people spent the same kind of days here a hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,   Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17109]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part is, there will be no problem selling out those $1,000 parties. Playboy will be in the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part is, there will be no problem selling out those $1,000 parties. Playboy will be in the same venue at $2,000 a pop, and people will spend all kinds of money. But we struggle because we don't have Playboy bunnies. We in the nonprofits are doing everything but selling ourselves at auction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14910]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47406]]></link><description><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35013]]></link><description><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53360]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41157]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49169]]></link><description><![CDATA[By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20902]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40236]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62671]]></link><description><![CDATA[What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match and a whole new opponent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61176]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank the Lord for the air she got. God is alive. He looks after all of us. You just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33729]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank the Lord for the air she got. God is alive. He looks after all of us. You just have to have faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33729</guid></item></channel></rss>