<?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 artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53672]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of Irish and Scottish descent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to the mountains is going home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to the mountains is going home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603]]></link><description><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's quite an honor to win an award that gives recognition to the student-athlete. Obviously, it's what Division III is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39635]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's quite an honor to win an award that gives recognition to the student-athlete. Obviously, it's what Division III is a lot about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show  I am not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9612]]></link><description><![CDATA[These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show  I am not in the roll of common men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This monument is family. This monument needs to be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42037]]></link><description><![CDATA[This monument is family. This monument needs to be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41622]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got off to a great start. They were feeding off the emotion from the crowd I think. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got off to a great start. They were feeding off the emotion from the crowd I think. It was great to see Jake hit some shots. He's been struggling lately and to see him shoot like that was fun to watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly noble mind has no resentments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly noble mind has no resentments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28104]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get that many athletes in one place was unreal. It was nice to be a part of it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33379]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get that many athletes in one place was unreal. It was nice to be a part of it. We plan to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28963]]></link><description><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they may not have the rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees or displaced people in their home country. It is a huge proportion of the population that depends largely on international aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never judges you, and allows for you to grow and helps you along the way is a friend  that you should keep around for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62881</guid></item></channel></rss>