<?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[There's a real trickle down effect when there isn't much snow. Resorts, restaurants, ski shops - we're all impacted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40754]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a real trickle down effect when there isn't much snow. Resorts, restaurants, ski shops - we're all impacted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the life of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the life of trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58183]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this team. They have a lot of experience and their seasoned competitors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26142]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43223]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of justice is good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of justice is good faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,   Or but a wandering Voice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818</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[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559]]></link><description><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the standalone novels that Dutton suggested he write.] You can explore broader themes in a standalone novel, ... You can put your character through much greater levels of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the torrent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We certainly appreciate our working relationship with the mayor and his office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We certainly appreciate our working relationship with the mayor and his office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been working on combinations and communication, which has helped us a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11871]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52406]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there:  Like a yawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there:  Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,   And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.    With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank     The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank,      And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine       When the eastern conduits ran with wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32055]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item></channel></rss>