<?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[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17083]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24234]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</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/66278]]></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/66278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you're permitted to murder, kill, rob and burn can a game be in progress. That is the message carried to us by the Sunday papers. And that is the message which every child erroneously learns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/75]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/75</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41759]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24703</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[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And read their history in a nation's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19333]]></link><description><![CDATA[And read their history in a nation's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper (or carve it in stone), and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  And roam along, the world's tired denizen,   With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37855]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;  Conspiring with him how to load and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;  Conspiring with him how to load and bless   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;    To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,     And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63487]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4932]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31394]]></link><description><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly one million copies, it's by far the biggest book we've ever published, quite possibly the biggest [distributor] Dorchester has ever published as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely encouraging. I'm fairly certain that the majority of state legislators would support this if given the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39506]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely encouraging. I'm fairly certain that the majority of state legislators would support this if given the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm,  But draw their swords to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm,  But draw their swords to do them good,   As doctors cure by letting blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is something you got to make in case you don't die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65066</guid></item></channel></rss>