<?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[Leave not a rack behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate work. That's why I got married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate work. That's why I got married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,  That from Heaven, or near it,   Pourest thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,  That from Heaven, or near it,   Pourest thy full heart    In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17915]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those incemeteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around and make an impression. It's nice for that to happen here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're really wanting to create an environment of continuous education. By providing a single principal ... there would be even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39772]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're really wanting to create an environment of continuous education. By providing a single principal ... there would be even more continuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno  Si leggesse in fronte scritto,   Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,    Ci farebbero pieta!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's transparency is another's humiliation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35698]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's transparency is another's humiliation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our programs.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20453]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.  When the splendour of your story   Builds the halo of its glory,    'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings     And diadem the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47948]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4124]]></link><description><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds so wild would,     In the days of childhood,      Fling round my cradle       Their magic spells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12658]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,   And curs of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   Out o'er the grassy lea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19015]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</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[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13766]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13766</guid></item></channel></rss>