<?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[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally -- every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just made the brave move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40532]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just made the brave move from another country, with perhaps little education or with a lot of education and degrees crossing over from another industry, all of these folks have opportunities in tourism. Young or old, part time or full time, it needs everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I can raise no money by vile means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64573]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I can raise no money by vile means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return  Esteems that busy world an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20332]]></link><description><![CDATA[How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return  Esteems that busy world an idler too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15624]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impatient may not always be wrong on issues, but they are almost always wrong in their attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impatient may not always be wrong on issues, but they are almost always wrong in their attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3953]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4009]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1017]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2456]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We won't be able to deny it any longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10008]]></link><description><![CDATA[My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really an impressive number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31318]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really an impressive number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150]]></link><description><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;   How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15801]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/586</guid></item></channel></rss>