<?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[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3996]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around and make an impression. It's nice for that to happen here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then to breakfast with What appetite you have. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56038]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then to breakfast with What appetite you have. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55259]]></link><description><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57061]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Shall I Wander ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Shall I Wander]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a jobapplication form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a jobapplication form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's [the memorial is] a beautiful spot and fits in here at the soccer fields perfectly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's [the memorial is] a beautiful spot and fits in here at the soccer fields perfectly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25538]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the new leader in Canada they're going to cut us some slack. People from the US are going to realize for the first time where Ottawa is and that it's the Capital of Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe it is good government to enact a law funding this research, rather than having to amend the Florida ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe it is good government to enact a law funding this research, rather than having to amend the Florida Constitution to do so, ... We support the Florida Legislature taking this up in March 2006 and we encourage that this legislation be passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have beaten off a lot of competition from other clubs to secure Martin's signature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have beaten off a lot of competition from other clubs to secure Martin's signature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42706</guid></item></channel></rss>