<?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[These kids grow so much in their four years here, and there's certain things we'd like to think the program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35023]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids grow so much in their four years here, and there's certain things we'd like to think the program stands for. Tonight, you saw the efforts of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1354</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[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave,  And leave the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave,  And leave the world no copy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37166]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Driver AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off andbolted to the brink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Driver AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off andbolted to the brink of a deep precipice. While he was in the actof throwing himself over, his owner seized him by the tail,endeavoring to pull him back. When the Ass persisted in hiseffort, the man let him go and said, Conquer, but conquer toyour cost.A willful beast must go his own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17643]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is anything besides the mind ever boggled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is anything besides the mind ever boggled?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying lemons for Iraqi allies who have bull's-eyes on their backs. That's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I'm just so happy I was able to turn it around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16165]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,  Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship. These are completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship. These are completely wild birds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An upbraided morsell never choaked any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49133]]></link><description><![CDATA[An upbraided morsell never choaked any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65784]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14159</guid></item></channel></rss>