<?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[There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20972]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the Governor's Mansion, they really have to put up a Jim Edgar-type candidate, a moderate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you have said I will consider; what you have to say  I will with patience hear, and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9867]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you have said I will consider; what you have to say  I will with patience hear, and find a time   Both meet to hear and answer such high things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54365]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31554]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it go to their heads. They still have to go out and work hard every single day in order to maintain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8877]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,  His early dreams of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5644]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,  His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,   And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He competes all the time and is always aware of everything around him. And he never gives up on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30069]]></link><description><![CDATA[He competes all the time and is always aware of everything around him. And he never gives up on the puck. Now he has to mature and adjust to being a professional. Everything is a little faster, the shooters shoot harder and there are more games than in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many ways to the life we live,none so right, or so profound, as the onethat is uniquely ours.We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many ways to the life we live,none so right, or so profound, as the onethat is uniquely ours.We need to get to the place that isSeparate from what you've ever doneSeparate from what you'll ever doThe place you know isRIGHTFORYOU]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4073]]></link><description><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really isno other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is justanother present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, youcannot live it until it does appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59036]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39053]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps only 7 to 10 percent at most of the cost of producing a wafer is labor. So there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps only 7 to 10 percent at most of the cost of producing a wafer is labor. So there is a whole host of other factors that make a wafer fab competitive and the cost of labor is not really one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22219</guid></item></channel></rss>