<?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[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are alike requited,   God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see the same people almost every time. And then some nights we'll go on an off night and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see the same people almost every time. And then some nights we'll go on an off night and it's a whole, entire different crowd. A lot of times it's according to the production. Some attract a younger group and some attract old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51154]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5502]]></link><description><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665]]></link><description><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend. (George) 'Where did you get the flowers?' (Gracie) 'I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend. (George) 'Where did you get the flowers?' (Gracie) 'I went to visit Mable.' (George) 'Yeah, so?' (Gracie) 'WELL, you told me to take her flowers!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35455]]></link><description><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46653]]></link><description><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.   The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59977]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and one in blood established;   One that made means to come by what he hath,    And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;     A base foul stone, made precious by the foil      Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;       One that hath ever been God's enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53853]]></link><description><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/678]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,  To catch the sunbeams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60003]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,  To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator;   Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3127]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a three, off-balance, on one leg and makes it. Congratulations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,   And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44913]]></link><description><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you believe their backgrounds? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you believe their backgrounds?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31485</guid></item></channel></rss>