<?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[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've seen all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The level of commitment and degree of responsibility that people took changed dramatically. What it's about is that the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The level of commitment and degree of responsibility that people took changed dramatically. What it's about is that the people who actually create the wealth share the wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4684]]></link><description><![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child is learning academic skills while helping others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child is learning academic skills while helping others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft,  Faithful, below, he did his duty; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14096]]></link><description><![CDATA[His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft,  Faithful, below, he did his duty;   But now he's gone aloft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armies are not only for offensives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Armies are not only for offensives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to get there early...I suggest you wait a week or so, the interest will fade and you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38292]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to get there early...I suggest you wait a week or so, the interest will fade and you should be able to attend. I appreciate your interest in our nation's justice system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own,  For neither praise nor pelf: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18268]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own,  For neither praise nor pelf:   Content to know and be unknown:    Whole in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not making mistakes, and they're living on the corners. You don't make a living hitting borderline pitches that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35261]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not making mistakes, and they're living on the corners. You don't make a living hitting borderline pitches that are off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50543]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40376]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[`But the Emperor has nothing on at all!' said a little child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36288]]></link><description><![CDATA[`But the Emperor has nothing on at all!' said a little child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16911]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,  Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59153</guid></item></channel></rss>