<?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[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter drug oft brings relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter drug oft brings relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its meaning in its goal. However far off be the Beatific Vision, to see the King in His glory, "to know Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" -- this is heaven, and "it were a well-spent journey though seven deaths lay between".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to wait [to decide on team discipline]. And that's an internal matter we'll never discuss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32634]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to wait [to decide on team discipline]. And that's an internal matter we'll never discuss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about poverty, it's not about a woman struggling to become a writer in a world dominated by men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32736]]></link><description><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43424]]></link><description><![CDATA[[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6114]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42159]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was nervous because any time you start a new program and you're new yourself into being a head coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was nervous because any time you start a new program and you're new yourself into being a head coach - I was always an assistant - you always get those jitters, ... Am I doing this right? Am I doing this wrong? You grow with the kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have done beginning, if we determine to begin with proof. We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries... Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21383]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should have been here half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being sent back to her home country to live with her relatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're the ones that will come in and play with the toys. They'll come and try on all the crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36534]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're the ones that will come in and play with the toys. They'll come and try on all the crazy hats we have back there. You'll see them playing as much as the kids are playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kid is unbelievable, ... I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kid is unbelievable, ... I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27968]]></link><description><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible  Of speaking truth, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible  Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4865]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57915]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John,  Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made   In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57915</guid></item></channel></rss>