<?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[Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46593]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26878</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[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,--   Ah, how its wavelets drown one!    A blue eye is a true eye;     Mysterious is a dark one,      Which flashes like a spark-sun!       A black eye is the best one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43223]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, the manor full of game;   The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats    In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim;     Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats.      An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants!       And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With power comes great responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54005]]></link><description><![CDATA[With power comes great responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cellar Roots is not just for art and writing majors at EMU. Any EMU student can contribute. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cellar Roots is not just for art and writing majors at EMU. Any EMU student can contribute. There is a common misperception that has perpetuated over time that you must be an art or writing major, but this is not true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4253]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that our law enforcers have yet to become serious about fighting corruption. In contrast, the people seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37479]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that our law enforcers have yet to become serious about fighting corruption. In contrast, the people seem to have more enthusiasm to bring graft cases out into the open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with the ensuing era.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52636]]></link><description><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws   The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.    Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire     Mirth, and youth, and warm desire;      Woods and groves are of thy dressing,       Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing,        Thus we salute thee with our early song,         And welcome thee, and wish thee long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of its stock represents a very attractive investment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a bet with your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a bet with your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11362]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. Before the match, we talked about how it was important to play each shot as if the championship depended on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm relieved knowing the baby is back and relieved that [the suspect] is behind bars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm relieved knowing the baby is back and relieved that [the suspect] is behind bars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet. Cherish them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above,  For love is heaven and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above,  For love is heaven and heaven is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control ofyour life. If you don't, life controls you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53527</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[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50208</guid></item></channel></rss>