<?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[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to be monthly but now it's quarterly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That dude is huge! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That dude is huge!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three years is a long time in football and to say my time here has been eventful would be something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three years is a long time in football and to say my time here has been eventful would be something of an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very realistic plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very realistic plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61463]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo write the unwritable wrongTo be better far than you areTo try when your arms are too wearyThe reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless,No matter how farTo fight for the rightWhithout question or pauseTo be willing to march into hellFor a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo this glorious questThat my heart will be peaceful and calmWhen I'm laid to my restAnd the world would be better for thisThat one man scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable starmusic by Leigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because the world is populous,   And here is not a creature but myself,    I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24240]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708]]></link><description><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. If thou understandest not... the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee? Submit thyself unto God, and humble thy sense to faith, and the light of knowledge shall be given thee, as shall be profitable and necessary unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item></channel></rss>