<?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[Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief,  And that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief,  And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,   Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;    Men, women, and all animals that breathe     Are statues, and not paintings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both scoring goals. They can be a pretty powerful one-two punch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a great time getting fat and now I'm going to have an even greater time losing weight. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a great time getting fat and now I'm going to have an even greater time losing weight. I had four offers from other companies, but I wanted to go with the ... one that I knew would work--and, let's face it, Jenny Craig's food is hands-down the yummiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53445]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56287]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,   Oh God, that I were dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/205]]></link><description><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck.Oh how I once loved tuna saladPork and lobsters, lamb chops tooTill I stopped and looked at dinnerFrom the dinner's point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense of respect and favour to it. For hereby the very Foundations of Christian Faith have been undermined, and the World prepared for Atheism. And if Reason must not be beard, the Being of a God, and the Authority of Scripture, can neither be proved nor defended; and so our Faith drops to the Ground like a House that hath no Foundation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48622]]></link><description><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54595]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of the bare hill;    The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!     There's joy in the mountains:      There's life in the fountains;       Small clouds are sailing,        Blue sky prevailing;         The rain is over and gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace   Chalks successors their way, nor called upon    For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied     To eminent assistants, but spiderlike      Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note,       The force of his own merit makes his way,        A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys         A place next to the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10577]]></link><description><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I told the British newspaper is that during a questioning session, Tariq Aziz was asked about who in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29823]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I told the British newspaper is that during a questioning session, Tariq Aziz was asked about who in Iraq took sovereign decisions like declaring war, suppressing a revolt or a civil mutiny,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60231]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28257]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was not his usual, energetic self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not fifty ways of fighting, there\'s only one, and that\'s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66655]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not fifty ways of fighting, there\'s only one, and that\'s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world order, except the Arab world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29107</guid></item></channel></rss>