<?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[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50682]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, theresulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy celllife-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life foran individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21398</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 covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem  Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,   And eternity in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20402]]></link><description><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50169]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For the gods see everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57575]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll moider da bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll moider da bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48323]]></link><description><![CDATA[It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier that morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt nervous for the first frame but after that I was fine, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt nervous for the first frame but after that I was fine,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307]]></link><description><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55435]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring in freshman and you know they have the talent to do it. On the field, there's not much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring in freshman and you know they have the talent to do it. On the field, there's not much that distracts them. They have the right focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And the Cabots walk with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26311</guid></item></channel></rss>