<?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[I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, I wanted to make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or strategic advantage to be gained by artificial distance from the U.S.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/99]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/99</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13370]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43007]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind man can see his mouth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind man can see his mouth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26550]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66380]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man doeswith that moment will be more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man doeswith that moment will be more important than the events of the previousmillennia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a lot of money here. That's the name of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15302]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3264]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;  But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness,   Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have been acquainted, from your youth, with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace; knowing, if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend as much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. viii.17, and some do more fully resemble the copy than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24991</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[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;  Fate never wounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;  Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,   Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908]]></link><description><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation that doth goad us on   To sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so in love with my brother right now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so in love with my brother right now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have thirty-one:    Unless that leap-year doth combine,     And give to February twenty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9128]]></link><description><![CDATA[And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how frequently the revenues would be distributed and what sort of accountability there would be in getting proper distribution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,  Man's noblest works must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,  Man's noblest works must have one common end,   And nothing crown the tablet of his name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36166</guid></item></channel></rss>