<?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 fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased with the effort our kids put forth from the start of the game. We got a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32377]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased with the effort our kids put forth from the start of the game. We got a little bit sloppy at the end and we need to be sharper. We need to keep getting better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36684]]></link><description><![CDATA[These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but I never saw any human flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13500]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years ago we said, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years ago we said,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. [Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57466]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30724]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66081]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42498]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if he wants to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35337]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we willimmediately feel overwhelmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They worked closely with the industry, with experts, and I think they've come up with a good start. Finally, we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32395]]></link><description><![CDATA[They worked closely with the industry, with experts, and I think they've come up with a good start. Finally, we're getting there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always been praying for India-Pakistan friendship and I think now those prayers are being answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always been praying for India-Pakistan friendship and I think now those prayers are being answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23133]]></link><description><![CDATA[By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A herdsman tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A herdsman tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to heaven, and said: Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown Bull to the Calf I have lost, if I may only secure my own escape from him in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23048]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe never pause to wonder at our feastsIf animals, like men, can possiblyhave rightsWe pray on Sundays that we may have lightTo guide our footsteps on the path wetreadWe're sick of war We do not want tofightThe thought of it now fills our hearts with dreadAnd yet we gorge ourselves upon the deadLike carrion crows we live and feed on meatRegardless of the suffering and painWe cause by doing so. If thus we treatDefenseless animals for sport or gainHow can we hope in this world to attainthe PEACE we say we are so anxious forWe pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral lawThus cruelty begets its offspring: war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45975</guid></item></channel></rss>