<?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[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43356]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29035]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better late than never, but never late is better ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better late than never, but never late is better]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,  The which no balm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,  The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood   Which breathed this poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63531]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo and it was just real fun from then on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37965]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,    Which in success oft disinherits,     For spurious causes, noblest merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody makes his path differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody makes his path differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6282]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11724]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth and its resources belong of right to its people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race;  Give ample room and verge enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race;  Give ample room and verge enough   The characters of Hell to trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a 'Star Trek' film, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a 'Star Trek' film, that I had an option to direct it, they hear rumors of what the thing was going to be and ran with a story that is not entirely accurate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2209</guid></item></channel></rss>