<?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[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good time. They also leave knowing that people care about making the world just a little bit better and they're a part of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I have wronged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36850]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I have wronged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, time is fast, no replay, no rewind so enjoy every single moment... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, time is fast, no replay, no rewind so enjoy every single moment...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/834]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The exchange failed to deal with systems problems twice because of excessive red tape. Tokyo is falling behind other markets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The exchange failed to deal with systems problems twice because of excessive red tape. Tokyo is falling behind other markets in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the universal language of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the universal language of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it to the other team. They were hungrier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful than this marble sleep;   It hears a voice within it tell:    Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.     'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,      But 'tis not what our youth desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's probably the only time I will ever play there. I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's probably the only time I will ever play there. I had so much fun. When I got up there and realized where I was and thought about all the famous musicians who played there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it gave me chills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34193]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179]]></link><description><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   Et le buste    Survit la cite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks easy, but It's not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks easy, but It's not at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the quality of your intent?Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53980]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the quality of your intent?Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.My intent will be evident in the results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and round the prospect wide,   When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64492]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374</guid></item></channel></rss>