<?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[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of wisdom is eternal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of wisdom is eternal thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34660]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57443]]></link><description><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I wouldn't eat poultry in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,  Oh! 'tis a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,  Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,   Filled up with horror all, and big with death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with any other sort of equality, but it is even bound to produce inequality in many respects. This is the necessary result and part of the justification of individual liberty: if the result of individual liberty did not demonstrate that some manners of living are more successful than others, much of the case for it would vanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have to raise our game to a whole new level. It's a tremendous statement about our market that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37577]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have to raise our game to a whole new level. It's a tremendous statement about our market that this is coming to us, but this will be different than anything we've ever done before. Just wait until you see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you kidding me? How'd you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you kidding me? How'd you do that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't have a strong inside game, but their outside game was good. They knew how to get open shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't have a strong inside game, but their outside game was good. They knew how to get open shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions about the wine. We consider the event to be classy but casual, meaning you don't have to be a wine aficionado to enjoy this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13212]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22273]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last time we couldn't get anything going, ... (Saturday), we made some plays and were able to do some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last time we couldn't get anything going, ... (Saturday), we made some plays and were able to do some things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow we will take a final decision about Seedorf, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow we will take a final decision about Seedorf,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45332]]></link><description><![CDATA[To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45332</guid></item></channel></rss>