<?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[It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392]]></link><description><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope it was an eye-opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44811]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to fail at pornography ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to fail at pornography]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like people, like priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like people, like priest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go away--    Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold     Than their weight in solid gold,      Slips their grip while greetin' you,--       Say good-bye er howdy-do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil habit Oft covers a good man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18517]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil habit Oft covers a good man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsessions are repetitive thoughts which resemble worry and are accompanied by anxiety. Compulsions are behavioral acts designed to eliminate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obsessions are repetitive thoughts which resemble worry and are accompanied by anxiety. Compulsions are behavioral acts designed to eliminate the obsessions. And sometimes if your mind becomes so cluttered with obsessions, and your day so filled with compulsions, life as you know becomes completely taken over by anxiety and counterproductive rituals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   Especially the ghost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32052]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18977]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist after 25 doesn't have brain !.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44239]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17052]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259]]></link><description><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19871]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29088]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29088</guid></item></channel></rss>