<?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[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23048]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire,  And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise,   And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies.    Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand,     To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why most of us never got in trouble. We played all day. You'd only break to eat, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37872]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why most of us never got in trouble. We played all day. You'd only break to eat, if you had the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's anything serious that will keep him out for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54609]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16351]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love sincerer than the love of food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, it's indescribable. She takes her job very personally; it never shuts off with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a bound,   It runneth the earth's wide regions round;    It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;     Or like a cradled creature lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our armies swore terrible in Flanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who could be happy and alone or good? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who could be happy and alone or good?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45267]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In Clovis,] we'll lose about a million dollars, ... We'll probably have to do away with our transit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36340]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In Clovis,] we'll lose about a million dollars, ... We'll probably have to do away with our transit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65096]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40398]]></link><description><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are one!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2392</guid></item></channel></rss>