<?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[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14674]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's outset to inform mankind   Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60392]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21442]]></link><description><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May my soul bloom in love for all existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60182]]></link><description><![CDATA[May my soul bloom in love for all existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22336]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got to see himself in a situation where he was just as strong and perhaps even stronger than the other favorites. If there hadn't been that flat bit half way up the climb, I actually think he could have taken the stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13753]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39025]]></link><description><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed! -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed! -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserve to lose this game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserve to lose this game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... People are telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell   At ebb of tide."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played like seniors at the end, and we've got to make sure they continue to do that throughout the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played like seniors at the end, and we've got to make sure they continue to do that throughout the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50751</guid></item></channel></rss>