<?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[Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about strippers, but being young and having somebody like a director like Michael see me, and see something in me, and take a chance. And have a process like we have had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losers must have leave to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losers must have leave to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition can creep as well as soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition can creep as well as soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And one refusal no rebuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best throw with the dice is to throw them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best throw with the dice is to throw them away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just as they made rivers of blood flow in our countries, we will make volcanoes of anger erupt in their countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46531]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Commission concludes that there is still a high level of concentration in the enterprise market in most areas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Commission concludes that there is still a high level of concentration in the enterprise market in most areas of the country today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his meals I ween,   In his cell so lone and cold.    . . . .     Creeping where no life is seen,      A rare old plant is the ivy green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49694]]></link><description><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,   And in its hollow tones are heard    The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292]]></link><description><![CDATA[here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worry about this game more than I do against some of the better teams. We have a tendency to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worry about this game more than I do against some of the better teams. We have a tendency to play to the level of our competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steven Ross has concurred that this plan will meet the Office of Human Rights' concern and will disperse the (English ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steven Ross has concurred that this plan will meet the Office of Human Rights' concern and will disperse the (English as a Second Language) population across the district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a no-brainer because my father played football, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38883]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a no-brainer because my father played football,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48410]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18725]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously I'm very happy to start the race on the front row. I think I had a good qualifying session ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously I'm very happy to start the race on the front row. I think I had a good qualifying session and I really pushed hard, especially in the last five laps when Bill Riley was telling me to push harder to avoid ending up in the back. I just kept pushing and pushing and finally got a good lap together. And it was my best. I don't think I could have done any better than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedest the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8968]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53801]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing the feelings and the needs of people who have terminal illness, to be able to use that process in a compassionate and dignified manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31343</guid></item></channel></rss>