<?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[The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was outstanding all around. She was spiking from the back row. She was consistent in all aspects of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42642]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was outstanding all around. She was spiking from the back row. She was consistent in all aspects of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4559]]></link><description><![CDATA[For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of war and devastation, we are starting from nothing basically. It will take a long time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40052]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of war and devastation, we are starting from nothing basically. It will take a long time for us to be fully self-sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and opportunities the world has to offer. We could all stand to be educated and learn about different cultures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves where the cavemen dwell;    Then a sense of law and beauty,     And a face turned from the clod--      Some call it Evolution,       And others call it God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. I will give you, she said, all the riches of the Red Sea. I will teach you to fly then, said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?' If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,   We start, for soul is wanting there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me faith means not worrying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me faith means not worrying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is for those who lack imagination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is for those who lack imagination]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our handicaps depend on how many innings, how many defeats and who the opponent is. It takes a lot more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our handicaps depend on how many innings, how many defeats and who the opponent is. It takes a lot more into account, so it's a lot more competitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best of the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11109]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656]]></link><description><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study ofbooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study ofbooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26505]]></link><description><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54495]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything flows; nothing remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything flows; nothing remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36180]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Era of good feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Era of good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stew all night in my own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stew all night in my own grease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil grows old he turns hermit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil grows old he turns hermit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17473</guid></item></channel></rss>