<?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[Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maintains great leverage and block protection. He's got a nose for the ball and just makes plays out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38582]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maintains great leverage and block protection. He's got a nose for the ball and just makes plays out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little Kitchin makes a large house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little Kitchin makes a large house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just made the brave move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40532]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just made the brave move from another country, with perhaps little education or with a lot of education and degrees crossing over from another industry, all of these folks have opportunities in tourism. Young or old, part time or full time, it needs everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090]]></link><description><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create  Phantoms that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create  Phantoms that seem to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took quite a while to get going and to secure some level of funding. To be honest, the early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32058]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took quite a while to get going and to secure some level of funding. To be honest, the early years I spent with the Commission were a little ad hoc and erratic. We were in our infancy. That's not ideal when you're dealing with the most powerful industry in the world in some eyes - the global movie and television business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genocide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genocide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29153]]></link><description><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? to show what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, ... Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are growing as an industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are growing as an industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38304]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled;  Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54335]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled;  Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,   And with the Tweed had travelled;    And when we came to Clovenford,     Then said "my winsome marrow,"      "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside,       And see the braes of Yarrow."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole world thinks I'm a slut and a whore. That's what I'm going to have to cope with for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole world thinks I'm a slut and a whore. That's what I'm going to have to cope with for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13804</guid></item></channel></rss>