<?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[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we can't dream any longer, we die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we can't dream any longer, we die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see that it has huge benefits for us understanding how and why diversity changes over time and how that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see that it has huge benefits for us understanding how and why diversity changes over time and how that might be applied to evaluate potential effects of future environment and climate changes,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero.  Mittens with the fur-side inside,   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44615]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero.  Mittens with the fur-side inside,   With the fur-side next his fingers    So's to keep the hand warm inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56972]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. - O America, 1977.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not abandoning the basics. We're trying to show people that we're about more than just basics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason, some come to learn and others come to teach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason, some come to learn and others come to teach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11938]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34193]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He looked like he was walking off the streets in Iraq, ... He had a bandanna on. He was very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30035]]></link><description><![CDATA[He looked like he was walking off the streets in Iraq, ... He had a bandanna on. He was very intense and serious. He laid out these wild posters across our conference room, covering most of the floor. It was an editor's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   And frights the school-boy from his play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in this flower doth appear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are in the camera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3132]]></link><description><![CDATA[In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20478</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[A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3111]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right from the beginning, ... he said, 'You should do all your routines in that voice.' And I said, 'But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right from the beginning, ... he said, 'You should do all your routines in that voice.' And I said, 'But I can't stand that voice.' And he said, 'But it's funny. It makes people laugh.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942]]></link><description><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942</guid></item></channel></rss>