<?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[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41467]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40020]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just want to write songs. I think if you start taking into consideration those kind of outside perspectives, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32462]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just want to write songs. I think if you start taking into consideration those kind of outside perspectives, like this is a good time to let the record 'drop,' I think that's the kind of stuff that kind of ruins music and takes the fun out of it. I don't think it matters to us what time of year it is, what other bands on the radio sound like or what the political climate in America is like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then hold on tightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2955]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was outstanding from the beginning. She was a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28818]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was outstanding from the beginning. She was a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11471]]></link><description><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51892]]></link><description><![CDATA[As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?   Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30570]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying our dues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tornado came through here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tornado came through here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64774]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive company information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;  Sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;  Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,   Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are they very dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26138]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying your colloquial pack,   The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751</guid></item></channel></rss>