<?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[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33410]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous amount of poise for a ninth-grader. There were some rough spots, but this gives us something to build on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me that after 12 years of lawlessness and disorder that we would be able to hold an ideal democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me that after 12 years of lawlessness and disorder that we would be able to hold an ideal democratic election in just a year or two. What's important is that we are moving toward democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14481]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55259]]></link><description><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24283]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49000]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hers was one of the first applications we accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hers was one of the first applications we accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25265]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24563]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of it is the seat-of-your-pants-type thing and a lot of faith and trust in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of it is the seat-of-your-pants-type thing and a lot of faith and trust in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53103]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for God\'s side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, so I just kept shooting. I wasn't shy at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's their life and if they kill somebody else they got to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's their life and if they kill somebody else they got to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath of the middle of Israeli politics there are going to be innumerable theories of what he might have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52182</guid></item></channel></rss>