<?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[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365]]></link><description><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63755]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48258]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses by,   And softly stooped to kiss the stream,    The pretty stream, the flattered stream,     The shy, yet unreluctant stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8680]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11269]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20171]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives upon hope will die fasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should change your name. That's a silly stance to take, because you're just going to disappoint people. Your early stuff is what people really attached themselves to. There aren't any songs that we won't play because we don't like them and don't think they're good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63430]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63430</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[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38827]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a major with all these great players and be under par... and then make a hole-in-one to boot. That might put me in the history books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shudder when relating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shudder when relating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way than they have the first half of the season. I am surprised they've done this well so soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/419]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness of being little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethnic origin and religious beliefs are not so important criteria for the future premier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethnic origin and religious beliefs are not so important criteria for the future premier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I hope to do it for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19342]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain about being 2-0. We had never beaten Milton in Milton before so it was a good win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37359</guid></item></channel></rss>