<?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[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22488]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help some of the beginners, but most of the girls are so advanced. They get their technical help elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42524]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois is fortunate to have several other pork processing plants that are considered assets to their community. IPPA has maintained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illinois is fortunate to have several other pork processing plants that are considered assets to their community. IPPA has maintained a good relationship with these existing facilities and plans to continue to foster those partnerships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And solid pudding against empty praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And solid pudding against empty praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55940]]></link><description><![CDATA[His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still going to need continued cooperation from our customer to get through the weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35408]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still going to need continued cooperation from our customer to get through the weekend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29440]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is more or less mad on one point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is more or less mad on one point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay  Every pleasure with a pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay  Every pleasure with a pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item></channel></rss>