<?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[I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure  Their blossoms from their roots, accessible   Alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure  Their blossoms from their roots, accessible   Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer;    Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill.     God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions. The Housedog replied, Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others. Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sword keeres another in the sheath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49700]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sword keeres another in the sheath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32481]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one hit. You don't see a lot of teams stringing six and seven hits together to score runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a major pain. Several patients are having to go without medication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a major pain. Several patients are having to go without medication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41623]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some guys who are injured that I have to prove myself against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30840]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some guys who are injured that I have to prove myself against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   Ach! der ist bald allein.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24709]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36878]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can then transition up here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Then are we servants of God, then are we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62411]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes a good eye squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes a good eye squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much grief as I take the rest of the year, plays like that, you've got to savor them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35266]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much grief as I take the rest of the year, plays like that, you've got to savor them and enjoy them. I've helped the team win with the bat before, but it's nice to do it with the glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw threw the crap out of the ball in that pen. We have to wait to see how he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30457]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw threw the crap out of the ball in that pen. We have to wait to see how he is today, but right now I'd be very surprised if he doesn't make the start Saturday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To play at Chesse when the house is on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50010]]></link><description><![CDATA[To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11726]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "DisneyLand burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real DisneyLand, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that circles it about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24884]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24884</guid></item></channel></rss>