<?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 very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22181]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever making the head its fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever making the head its fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. It's tough to swallow right now. ... Things aren't always gonna go your way. That's the only way I can really look at it. Some things we can control and some we can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28875]]></link><description><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18205]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39775]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been very aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been very aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of vanity is love of fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of vanity is love of fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And days o' lang syne?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32052]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our patience wasn't there and the tempo and continuity in our offense was off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our patience wasn't there and the tempo and continuity in our offense was off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56035]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51953]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   She I love is far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7948]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in the end, [Jude] calls the attention of the faithful to the last day. For the hope of that alone ought to sustain us, so that we may at no time despond; otherwise, we must necessarily fail every minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. thanks to Alan Bennett -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45352]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine   And sensibilities so fine!    Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell     Forever in my native shell,      Ordained to move when others please,       Not for my own content or ease;        But toss'd and buffeted about,         Now in the water and now out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11391]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    In that immortal copy     The conscience of us all      Can read without its glasses       On revelation's wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule   Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe:    Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;     Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school;      To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,       Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41506</guid></item></channel></rss>