<?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[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should blush   To see you so attired, swoon, I think,    To show myself a glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38351]]></link><description><![CDATA[On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35370]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17426]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is equivalent to eating garbage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39904]]></link><description><![CDATA[is equivalent to eating garbage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs to protect these collections not just in New Orleans but all along the Gulf Coast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet   By the curves of a perfect mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid!  On me the chance-discovered sight   Gleamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid!  On me the chance-discovered sight   Gleamed like a vision of delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19406]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6282]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you shave it off, you have nothing to hide behind, ... People can actually see your soul. It's so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you shave it off, you have nothing to hide behind, ... People can actually see your soul. It's so bizarre. I'm glad I did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1156]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22542]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29733]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and we kind of got sucked into that. We were forcing things. We need to do a better job of sticking to our stuff and doing what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2615]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2615</guid></item></channel></rss>