<?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[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew through those waves. It was exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up big early and kept fighting them off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van may have fallen asleep,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And every dew-drop paints a bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12198]]></link><description><![CDATA[And every dew-drop paints a bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36183]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he is dying;--    Old age, begin sighing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12056]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, tomorrow is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55310]]></link><description><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47560]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside,  His stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed   As to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62003]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside,  His stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed   As to the pipe of Pan,    Stepped blithesomely with lover's pride     Across the fields to Anne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring)  From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring)  From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint they bear;   So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,  Flew there on restless wing,   Seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,  Flew there on restless wing,   Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35129]]></link><description><![CDATA[An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing,  Dost murmur, as thou slowly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing,  Dost murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about,   In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing,    And tell how little our large veins would bleed,     Would we but yield them to thy bitter need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377</guid></item></channel></rss>