<?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[A mouse relies not solely on one hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50856]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mouse relies not solely on one hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17658]]></link><description><![CDATA[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile and sweetly sing.    Smile--though I shall not be near thee;     Sing--though I shall never hear thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense and beauty have close connections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense and beauty have close connections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. Turnovers hurt us. They took advantage and played a very up-tempo style. This game was a good measuring stick to show how far we need to go to make ourselves equally as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our relationship with India is not related with Pakistan. Both the countries are friendly countries with great ties. The relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our relationship with India is not related with Pakistan. Both the countries are friendly countries with great ties. The relationship between us and India is not affected with regard to any other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60121]]></link><description><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10938]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.  Its use: to turn our will to His will.  Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life ain't all beer and skittles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ain't all beer and skittles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday  The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is wholly practical; it is revealed to us, to discover to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday  The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is wholly practical; it is revealed to us, to discover to us our high origin and the greatness of our fall, and to show us the deep and profound operation of the triune God in the recovery of the divine life in our souls: that by the means of this mystery thus discovered, our piety may be rightly directed, our faith and prayer have their proper objects, [and] the workings and aspiring of our own hearts may cooperate and correspond with that triune life in the Deity, which is always desiring to manifest itself in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just staying one day ahead of yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just staying one day ahead of yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest labor bears a lovely face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest labor bears a lovely face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like these days, people are building silos in their lives. I wanted to restore the relationships and connected-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like these days, people are building silos in their lives. I wanted to restore the relationships and connected-ness of a community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8204]]></link><description><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales   Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. First of all, he's starting to figure out that the speed of this game's different than it was at Howard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the next step for someone like me who has come from small boats to try to make it into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the next step for someone like me who has come from small boats to try to make it into the America's Cup. It's the pinnacle of big boat sailing really.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,  His love sincere, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16638]]></link><description><![CDATA[But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,  His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,   His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,    His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48332]]></link><description><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48332</guid></item></channel></rss>