<?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 is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back on 23 years. So I'm not going to let 48 hours spoil my fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57507]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy  To know I'm further off from heaven   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy  To know I'm further off from heaven   Than when I was a boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used to fart in her sleep. I thought I’d share that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and went ‘ah was that you?’ And I didn’t have the heart to tell her. Oh!Will: She woke herself up?Sean: Ah...! But Will, she’s been dead for 2 years, and that's the shit I remember: wonderful stuff you know? Little things like that. Those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but there not. Ah, that's the good stuff.~ Robin Williams as Sean Maguire, Matt Damon as Will Hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24244]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;  What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;   On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18969]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can also be an erogenous zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62683]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can also be an erogenous zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, I thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28425]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of guilty or not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown before,   To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55230]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago ain't no sissy town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago ain't no sissy town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10523]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362</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[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;  If stranger, such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;  If stranger, such no longer be;   If foe, our love shall conquer thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41552]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41552</guid></item></channel></rss>