<?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[In the third quarter 2005, we produced our best third-quarter result ever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39089]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the third quarter 2005, we produced our best third-quarter result ever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung  Is half so sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59252]]></link><description><![CDATA[O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung  Is half so sweet as thrushes sang   When my dear love and I were young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time writing in New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time writing in New York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the free,   Our fathers, trod the desert land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49117]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only wish I had more time for fund raising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only wish I had more time for fund raising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,   Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" and no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -John Foster Dulles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39421]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,   While all my thoughts congeal to verse!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat., "Now I know what love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat., "Now I know what love is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect icy conditions and drive in such a manner. Don't get out if you don't have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect icy conditions and drive in such a manner. Don't get out if you don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/886]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51750]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applaud friends, the comedy is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applaud friends, the comedy is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45542]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a celebration of the water that is not romantic. It's a celebration of water within the context of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a celebration of the water that is not romantic. It's a celebration of water within the context of the time we live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26228</guid></item></channel></rss>