<?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[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3871]]></link><description><![CDATA[You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving breath when you are gone....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women's music is underrepresented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women's music is underrepresented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486]]></link><description><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the triumph over chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the triumph over chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63914]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10059]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3646]]></link><description><![CDATA[By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wildest colts only make the best horses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wildest colts only make the best horses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20655]]></link><description><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.   - George Washington,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended our mandatory training and orientation. There is in fact no connection to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be quotable than to be honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be quotable than to be honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly behind her yet and thinking about another candidate probably would be nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41918]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curtesie on one side only lasts not long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary goal of a vendor is to make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very, very dark day, not just for this family, but for all of us to know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37707]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very, very dark day, not just for this family, but for all of us to know that nothing is really changing here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37707</guid></item></channel></rss>