<?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 synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. To come and knock on somebody's door is kind of a neat experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45420]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006]]></link><description><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every kid has a dream of owning and driving a race car. I have always had a love for cars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every kid has a dream of owning and driving a race car. I have always had a love for cars especially fast cars, and this is a dream come true. I'll stick to driving the basketball lane and let P.J. handle the fast lane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/646]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuba has health indicators that are comparable to those of developed nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cuba has health indicators that are comparable to those of developed nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one of us can keep our mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is gravy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can really honestly be the very best, no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65496]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,  Whose artful colour pass'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,  Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye,   Obliged to triumph in this legacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3388]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794]]></link><description><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,   And summer is near its close--    It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;     And dusk, and dew, and home again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had a few brief moments in there where we did play good or looked all right, but, for the most part, we looked like a pee-wee team out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19305]]></link><description><![CDATA[History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it to the other team. They were hungrier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. - To Neil Armstrong after he landed successfully on the Moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075]]></link><description><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go out and play hard for four quarters and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item></channel></rss>