<?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[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days those are is hard enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Every time my dad moved to a new military base, the first thing I'd do was climb the highest hill around, which usually wasn't very high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. We can offer a casino a revenue enhancement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13969]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring,   So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was hell. I wouldn't wish this upon anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30980]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was hell. I wouldn't wish this upon anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, andchoosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The characteristic of our modern Christianity, which correlates it with all apostolic times, is the substitution of loyalty to a person in place of belief in doctrines, as the essence and test of Christian life. This is the simplicity and unity by which the Gospel can become effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3343]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/117]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me   And my soul is in Cathay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32987]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue,   Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hungry right now. We're coming off a loss in a game we believe we should have won. We're hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hungry right now. We're coming off a loss in a game we believe we should have won. We're hungry for another win now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30743]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a different person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65730]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   In pastoral array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things.  [It., Cio ch'io vedeva mi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24172]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things.  [It., Cio ch'io vedeva mi sembrava un riso   Dell's universo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19473]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item></channel></rss>