<?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[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools of the trade ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools of the trade]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32624]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that I most like to portray and I'm not always given the opportunity to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51485]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["He was a very good hater." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18854]]></link><description><![CDATA["He was a very good hater."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be morefun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22081]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be morefun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65476]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good forwallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12993]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337]]></link><description><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64295]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24940]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom -Christopher Morley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29771]]></link><description><![CDATA[leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three  On the mossed elm; three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three  On the mossed elm; three on the naked lime   Trembling,--and one upon the old oak tree!    Where is the Dryad's immortality?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53257]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away,  The earth goes down into a vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away,  The earth goes down into a vale of grief,   And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,    Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay--     Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40490]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have not seen such an improvement . . . as I have in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54266</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[Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21593]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58752]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knives are out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knives are out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/886]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199</guid></item></channel></rss>