<?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[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49658]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, clear and uncoerced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32009]]></link><description><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25930]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;  But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness,   Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Republicans want local control and management of our schools, the president and the Democrats want Washington mandates. That's really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Republicans want local control and management of our schools, the president and the Democrats want Washington mandates. That's really what it's all about,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good swimmers at length are drowned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good swimmers at length are drowned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13126]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theatre community has been so warm and welcoming to me. What better way to thank them then to co-host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theatre community has been so warm and welcoming to me. What better way to thank them then to co-host this huge party presenting the best of what Broadway has to offer. And I'm thrilled to share the stage with John Lithgow, whose work I'm a huge fan of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is as important as anything I've done as an owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40684]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is as important as anything I've done as an owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41273]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55332]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27342]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33032]]></link><description><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him all the time...I was not with him that night, because I felt like I was coming down with the flu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559</guid></item></channel></rss>