<?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[If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you\'ll make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66890]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you\'ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you\'ll get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35320]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54351]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63562]]></link><description><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping for the momentum (from the win), but not (an emotional) high, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping for the momentum (from the win), but not (an emotional) high,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we end up doing some kind of financing, we will probably finance both buildings together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we end up doing some kind of financing, we will probably finance both buildings together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3451]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carrier of news and knowledge, Instrument of trade and industry,  Promoter of mutual acquaintance,   Of peace and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carrier of news and knowledge, Instrument of trade and industry,  Promoter of mutual acquaintance,   Of peace and good-will    Among men and nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25061]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37478]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4671]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  And do the best to climb, and get to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.   Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley    Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse     Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;      And bid her steal into the pleached bower,       Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,        Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,         Made proud by princes, that advance their pride          Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her           To listen our propose. This is thy office.            Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15612]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19777]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,   And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely for my family, so far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598]]></link><description><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God and woman,   For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,    Though the world's throne stood open in my path,     I would go wandering back into my childhood,      Searching for them with tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54212]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4326]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40534</guid></item></channel></rss>