<?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 society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base the fear of death than fear of life.   O Britain! infamous for suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42664]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over and over to make sure that when I get it up to tempo it actually sounds right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28457]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable (and) some parameters by which people can follow how they've reached their decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, and has been a leader on many important issues related to the pork industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5684]]></link><description><![CDATA[In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's bold in character, especially with that rocker-red. Her bedroom eyes give us a come-hither kind of look. But ... she wants you to know just when you have her figured out, she's gonna fool you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032]]></link><description><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries; never forget kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries; never forget kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54458]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19538</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[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60607</guid></item></channel></rss>