<?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[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I felt rude, I kept seeing my bare bum - then I liked it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21384]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a tough team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a tough team,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65746]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41373]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just flat-out outplayed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790]]></link><description><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62521]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a lot riding on 'American Idol' and, hopefully for Fox, the show has long coattails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30407]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a lot riding on 'American Idol' and, hopefully for Fox, the show has long coattails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30894]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and only third, democracy and human rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashley is a role for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ashley is a role for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24257]]></link><description><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28104]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26602</guid></item></channel></rss>