<?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[After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2741]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if Fortune fill thy sail    With more than a propitious gale,     Take half thy canvas in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the public now is beginning to appreciate this man's talent. As the most talented fighter in the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the public now is beginning to appreciate this man's talent. As the most talented fighter in the world, he will be in a position to be the biggest attraction and make the most money. I think one thing will naturally follow the other, as long as -- as he said -- is cooperative with the media and knows and understands promotion. The sky's the limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder les oeufs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around inhis pocket. The more he has, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around inhis pocket. The more he has, the more they weigh him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need:  Pepper and vinegar besides   Are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need:  Pepper and vinegar besides   Are very good indeed--    Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,     We can begin to feed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be blinde, then to see ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be blinde, then to see ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48955]]></link><description><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound,   Is wont with spede to send redresse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the "best possible" result in each separate instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47765]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt,   Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi parliament to complete the draft constitution in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without adventure civilization is in full decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42230]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being a follower of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159]]></link><description><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As large as life, and twice as natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2810]]></link><description><![CDATA[As large as life, and twice as natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2810</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["I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is not something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38443]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is not something that happens to you. Happiness is inside you now. You are motivated from within. You only have to allow happiness to surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287]]></link><description><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature means Necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature means Necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why slander we the times? What crimes  Have days and years, that we   Thus charge them with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why slander we the times? What crimes  Have days and years, that we   Thus charge them with iniquity?    If we would rightly scan,     It's not the times are bad, but man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22249]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a part of growth, unfortunately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a part of growth, unfortunately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had this dream with CBS about promoting this type of music to people who did not know about it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had this dream with CBS about promoting this type of music to people who did not know about it and we thought the best way to do that was in English,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63122</guid></item></channel></rss>