<?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 may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to getthings done make lists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21466]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to getthings done make lists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13038]]></link><description><![CDATA[True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never find fault with the absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never find fault with the absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43609]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32974]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went all the way down to the wire to show it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.  [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:   Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13160]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64278]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white as snow;    I like the chaliced lilies,     The heavy Eastern lilies,      The gorgeous tiger-lilies,       That in our garden grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the incidents of the profession. [Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the incidents of the profession. [Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33909]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46040]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally got one in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;  When our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18151]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;  When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep?   No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50434]]></link><description><![CDATA[But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51709]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</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[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item></channel></rss>