<?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[Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58908]]></link><description><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation that doth goad us on   To sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36825]]></link><description><![CDATA[At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money wants no followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money wants no followers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24003]]></link><description><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We left a lot of plays on the field, whether it was a bad route, bad throw or dropped pass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We left a lot of plays on the field, whether it was a bad route, bad throw or dropped pass. I thought we played pretty good, but pretty good isn't enough against Florida.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mischief is done the door is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50532]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mischief is done the door is shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference this year is we're not giving away points. This team is special. We're such a good defensive team, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference this year is we're not giving away points. This team is special. We're such a good defensive team, we know we have a chance to get a result whether we're home or away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating our downtown locations, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating our downtown locations, we will bring together 1,600 employees to serve our customers more efficiently and conveniently from one central location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No call has ever poisoned by pen. [Fr., Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3530]]></link><description><![CDATA[No call has ever poisoned by pen. [Fr., Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is another name for opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45048]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is another name for opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42547]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs against him, you enjoy that because you know you've certainly earned them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15521]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43541</guid></item></channel></rss>