<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54351]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer you leave it in checking, the more likely it will vanish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer you leave it in checking, the more likely it will vanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1726]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20679]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along and they're going to be good again next year. That's what I wanted to see. I didn't want to see the program go down. We've got a chance to build it up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr.   I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln   Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner   Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50891]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19141]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18083]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zebra fish is ideal because you can freeze the entire fish. Normal freezing is not conducted because it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zebra fish is ideal because you can freeze the entire fish. Normal freezing is not conducted because it would be too slow and cause ice crystals to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37997]]></link><description><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began serving as coordinator in 2000, and Emma's essay was one of the best I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. To afford sympathetic entertainment to abstract ideas, to let one idea beget another, and that another, till the mind teems with them; to compare one idea with others, to weigh, to consider, evaluate, approve, respect, correct, refine; to join thought with thought like an architect till a whole edifice has been created within the mind; to travel back in imagination to the beginning of the creation and then to leap swiftly forward to the end of time; to bound upward through illimitable space and downward into the nucleus of an atom; and all this without so much as moving from our chair or opening the eyes--this is to soar above all the lower creation and come near to the angels of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15618]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43155]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63832]]></link><description><![CDATA[As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63832</guid></item></channel></rss>