<?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[Jest not in earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37026]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59643]]></link><description><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, call up thy gales,   And whistle in rude fury round his ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big girls need big diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big girls need big diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some groups that are resistant to vaccination because of the belief that influenza shot causes the flu. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32278]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some groups that are resistant to vaccination because of the belief that influenza shot causes the flu. It doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. Theydon't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. Theydon't overcome inertia. They don't begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided to buy something that doesn't use as much gas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under Modi's leadership, Gujarat will be able to achieve rural development in a manner in which it has not been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under Modi's leadership, Gujarat will be able to achieve rural development in a manner in which it has not been achieved previously in India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4645]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29750]]></link><description><![CDATA[were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet that demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5863]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500]]></link><description><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rule by patience, Laughing Water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rule by patience, Laughing Water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his fragrant winter store,   Humming in calm content his winter song,    Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,     The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,      But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips       The single drop of sweetness closely pressed        Within the poison chalice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60874]]></link><description><![CDATA[And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31875]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and he's so much more relaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26431</guid></item></channel></rss>