<?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[I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And that's really it. And what we do is we come in in the morning and we go, "Did you see that thing last night? Aahh!" And then we spend the next 8 or 9 hours trying to take this and make it into something funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32559]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and sunny--   But of all the lunar things that change,    The one that shows most fickle and strange,     And takes the most eccentric range,      Is the moon--so called--of honey!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we do not believe in God, not really, and so we have no expectation. But Jesus did believe in Him, was sure He is alive and abroad in the world; that, therefore, anything may happen any hour. And thus to Him any smallest incident was a magic casement opening upon who could tell what possibilities. A fisherman offers Him a crude, inchoate half-faith, and with that He is sure that He can found a world-wide Church that will defy the powers of evil, aye, and grind them into nothingness at last: a dying brigand, paying the just penalties of his crimes, gropes towards Him in the darkness with the vague hands of a blind man, and, founding upon that, Christ dies, quite sure that He has won: two or three Gentiles seek an interview with Him, and He sees a whole teeming world of men and women being saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58327]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near   Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,    Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry     Amid thy cloud-built streets.   - Rev. Frederick William Faber,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54251]]></link><description><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51802]]></link><description><![CDATA[He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59445]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,   And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea;    With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn,     While I carol away idle sorrow,      And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn,       Look forward with hope for to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ThatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a critical time in kidsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ lives when they need discipline, and he had it. And he had school spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31632]]></link><description><![CDATA[ThatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a critical time in kidsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ lives when they need discipline, and he had it. And he had school spirit. Back then, you were proud to represent your team and your city and your school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both of them work very hard on their game. Both of them were outstanding in the classroom, and both of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both of them work very hard on their game. Both of them were outstanding in the classroom, and both of them do the right things most all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428]]></link><description><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58563]]></link><description><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12865]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating with a dog nearby may turn some customers off. But then there are some people who do everything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating with a dog nearby may turn some customers off. But then there are some people who do everything with their dogs. We don't allow the dogs (in the dining patio area) because we were told it was a health code violation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44411]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debts and lies are generally mixed together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debts and lies are generally mixed together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade To paly ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade To paly ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52541</guid></item></channel></rss>