<?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[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41428]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the hottest thing right now because they have a No. 1 single. What they embody is . . . music in the truest form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1214]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56324]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6943]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34231]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. Then Hiroshi came back at me and we were all running closely together until I collected a rear-right slow puncture and that cost me the chance of winning the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62315]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell,   Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell    The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A transcendent being can be any miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A transcendent being can be any miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing. Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52774]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30289]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1735]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53508]]></link><description><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in the dang thing so it can be used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836</guid></item></channel></rss>