<?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[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team played football today the way I like to see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team played football today the way I like to see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13181]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority ... Let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14130]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17863]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49647]]></link><description><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55586]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unjust peace is better than a just war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unjust peace is better than a just war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head   The likeness of a kingly crown had on.    Satan was now at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has outstanding athletic ability and great hands. We used him at every position you can imagine on the football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37912]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has outstanding athletic ability and great hands. We used him at every position you can imagine on the football field. He played quarterback, running back, wide receiver, linebacker, safety, wherever we needed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore,   Here's a double health to thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire  Until she spoke, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire  Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise   Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire,    And love than either; and there would arise,     A something in them which was not desire,      But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,       Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611</guid></item></channel></rss>