<?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[Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a sense of self-doubt in India, within itself. People were not exactly as confident as you see them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a sense of self-doubt in India, within itself. People were not exactly as confident as you see them now. But that did not turn out to be true. Indians have come through unscathed, and they're able to protect their turf ... So now there's the sense that we want to learn from them, rather than that they'll wipe us out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!   . . . .    Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!     In Dixie Land I'll take my stand      To lib and die in Dixie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49120]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are indeed   Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age    Are petrified forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may rezoloot till the cows come home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10528]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may rezoloot till the cows come home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14606]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cleere conscience is a sure carde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cleere conscience is a sure carde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49570]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58731]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item></channel></rss>