<?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[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. -Bill Vaughan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6266]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No day so clear but hath dark clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49649]]></link><description><![CDATA[No day so clear but hath dark clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children learn to smile from their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children learn to smile from their parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [Lat., Incipe; dimidium facti est coepisse. Supersit  Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations.Then someone got the idea that there were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21682]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations.Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeperdown. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher.Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to findsupernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. Moretime and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20527]]></link><description><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39722]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1957]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60112]]></link><description><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty in all things is charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty in all things is charming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16711]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As leopard feels at home with leopard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48542]]></link><description><![CDATA[As leopard feels at home with leopard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25612]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is only a small part of all the forces of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40376]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's my wee-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36884]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's my wee-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11134</guid></item></channel></rss>