<?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[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,   Or but a wandering Voice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Era of good feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Era of good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to die in a dignified manner, with my family all around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to die in a dignified manner, with my family all around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heard the chimes at midnight. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heard the chimes at midnight. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wings of angels, tears of saintswon't bring you back to me(about her son's suicide)(He will come back to her.. the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wings of angels, tears of saintswon't bring you back to me(about her son's suicide)(He will come back to her.. the soul isdeathless).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with the Capitol Theater is it was built for movies, there's no backstage area. Now, all of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with the Capitol Theater is it was built for movies, there's no backstage area. Now, all of our backstage, all of our dressing rooms, everything like that will be in the other building. The restrooms will be in the other building, plus the concessions will be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61645]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often, taking stock takes place in the context of a crisis. This is maybe a not-so-painful way to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often, taking stock takes place in the context of a crisis. This is maybe a not-so-painful way to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening year,   I listen, and it cheers me long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est  Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2426]]></link><description><![CDATA[America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in come canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon,  And quarters every plain and hill,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12663]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in come canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon,  And quarters every plain and hill,   Seeking its master. . . . As for me    This prayer at least the gods fulfill     That when I pass the flood and see      Old Charon by Stygian coast       Take toll of all the shades who land,        Your little, faithful barking ghost         May leap to lick my phantom hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fish in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fish in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gave him a pitcher. He gave us the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gave him a pitcher. He gave us the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550]]></link><description><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15949]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with just a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52473</guid></item></channel></rss>