<?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[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51721]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant himself afresh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8233]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be inside them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain at a given distance In amber lies;  Approached, the amber flits a little,--   And that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain at a given distance In amber lies;  Approached, the amber flits a little,--   And that's the skies!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there;  Temple, mountain, monument, spire;   Ships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there;  Temple, mountain, monument, spire;   Ships rigged out with sails of fire,    And blown by the evening air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was nervous because any time you start a new program and you're new yourself into being a head coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was nervous because any time you start a new program and you're new yourself into being a head coach - I was always an assistant - you always get those jitters, ... Am I doing this right? Am I doing this wrong? You grow with the kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market was really thin throughout the afternoon, with a continuation of profit-taking from yesterday, but then U.S. markets came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market was really thin throughout the afternoon, with a continuation of profit-taking from yesterday, but then U.S. markets came back and capital flowed in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings   His soul and body to their lasting rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're relying on him to have a good year. He worked hard in the off-season. He didn't play basketball. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're relying on him to have a good year. He worked hard in the off-season. He didn't play basketball. He's throwing the ball harder and is in better shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for our nation to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought (against). It is a time to remember his fight for freedom, equality and dignity of all races and all people. He was an incredible man ... he forced our nation to look inside and face our own flaws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on playing conventional volleyball and they play crazy volleyball. It frustrates the fool out of you. But we worked hard, persevering, passing and not giving up even though they dug us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king is come. Deal mildly with his youth; For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king is come. Deal mildly with his youth; For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19842</guid></item></channel></rss>