<?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[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way to go. We are going to evaluate our film and go from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The least foolish is wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The least foolish is wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54874]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50655</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/59780]]></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/59780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this.  A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this methodof searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consistssolely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the bestof us, that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the bestof us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29914]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep   In the next valley-glades:    Was it a vision, or a waking dream?     Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good win, but we've still got a long way to go. We've still got to keep working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good win, but we've still got a long way to go. We've still got to keep working hard everyday to get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,   From strength to strength advancing--only he    His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,     Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgives to the degree that one loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64285]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgives to the degree that one loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23536]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke by saying no too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22375]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke by saying no too often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2860]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14652</guid></item></channel></rss>