<?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[He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45422]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22233]]></link><description><![CDATA[What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they believed me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420]]></link><description><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34979]]></link><description><![CDATA[However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love   To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going to be prepared to do mop-up duty.' I don't think we would have won. I think they would have had an unprepared quarterback.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 I know the road to Jericho   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 I know the road to Jericho   It's in a part of town That's full of factories and filth.  I've seen the folks go down, Small folk with roses in their cheeks  And starlight in their eyes; And seen them fall among the thieves,  And heard their helpless cries. The priests and Levites speeding by   Read of the latest crimes In headlines spread in black and red  Across the Evening Times. How hard for those in limousines  To heal the heart of man! It was a slow-paced ass that bore  The Good Samaritan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violent can be sound and lightin waking us from sleep of night.Gently comes the dawn's twilightEach step taken oh so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violent can be sound and lightin waking us from sleep of night.Gently comes the dawn's twilightEach step taken oh so slight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who love deeply never grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who love deeply never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64828]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou sat'st a queen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In one compliance report you know exactly where you stand. You can see how many users and licenses you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30191]]></link><description><![CDATA[In one compliance report you know exactly where you stand. You can see how many users and licenses you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</guid></item></channel></rss>