<?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[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3364]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not  One friend to take his fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not  One friend to take his fortune by the arm   And go along with him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong   Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy. It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet, if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how wilt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring, ... and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17212]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been through the fire and things are just starting to shine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been through the fire and things are just starting to shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55619]]></link><description><![CDATA[This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54956]]></link><description><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief doth howl and rave,    And April weeps--but, O ye hours!     Follow with May's fairest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60951]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461]]></link><description><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27869]]></link><description><![CDATA[An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. It would mean there's less earnings management going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chance of it turning north to Louisiana is getting slimmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chance of it turning north to Louisiana is getting slimmer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never less alone than when by myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25537]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never less alone than when by myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23437]]></link><description><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31398</guid></item></channel></rss>