<?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[The devil's most devilish when respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/444]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor who was there (Iraq) who can help me out or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we remember we cannot understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we remember we cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9512]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was   "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run a business without taking risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15863]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run a business without taking risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46846]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled.   "A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then    It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent     Verse to the paper; how they printed it      In Poet's Corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment all showing improvement. There are more than enough reasons to expect that domestic demand-related stocks will rise further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55339]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39979]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25790]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security forces of their obligation to use only minimum necessary force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49089]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one wants lots of different lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one wants lots of different lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26939]]></link><description><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54949]]></link><description><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28882]]></link><description><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508</guid></item></channel></rss>