<?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[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39421]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On such an occasion as this, All time and nonsense scorning,  Nothing shall come amiss,   And we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15586]]></link><description><![CDATA[On such an occasion as this, All time and nonsense scorning,  Nothing shall come amiss,   And we won't go home till morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering music-spark,    When the earth grows pale and dumb."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's strawberries are another man's hives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's strawberries are another man's hives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd love to [get a chance to] play [Villanova], because I think we can show our toughness. I look forward to the challenge. We worked hard to get here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bears with the wicked, but not forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27963]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bears with the wicked, but not forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46092]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33576]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22366]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39521]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students out of the way because the AC unit is leaking on one side of the class. I saw a teacher move a row of kids over because water was leaking on one side of the room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15020]]></link><description><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be when he was my age, when he was in his prime, because we are so much alike,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20174]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is such a great sounding board, because she's the one who says, `How can you bear it?' ... And Evelyn Ryan, being who she was, could find satisfaction in any situation that she was living in. She found the magic, and the profundity, in the act of raising children. And, oh man, I couldn't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's use is to me no more   Than an unstringed viol or a harp,    Or like a cunning instrument cased up     Or, being open, put into his hands      That knows no touch to tune the harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40725</guid></item></channel></rss>