<?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[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59110]]></link><description><![CDATA[In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich with the spoils of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich with the spoils of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, I think he's loaded with love. This is a blustering kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. He tells the truth and that's why I love him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a trick worth two of that. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a trick worth two of that. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,   And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need    Of aid from them--she was the Universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A penny spar'd is twice got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A penny spar'd is twice got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord... In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19618]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman should be an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20479]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman should be an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands like this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36843]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands like this and take them across the country with them and that's how these bands come to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Them that has, gets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Them that has, gets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back and get us. ... Giving somebody an open 3-pointer. Not being in the right place on a play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as celebrity worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played a short while after it, but then it started swelling and it got really painful. Thankfully, our trainers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35322]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played a short while after it, but then it started swelling and it got really painful. Thankfully, our trainers recognized what it was early enough and we got him to a hospital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25538]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, butI couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, butI couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22195</guid></item></channel></rss>