<?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[The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day;  The merry breezes approach them,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day;  The merry breezes approach them,   And with them merrily play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19992]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53277]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190]]></link><description><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017</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[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets,   And simple faith than Norman blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42013]]></link><description><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13711]]></link><description><![CDATA[False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technology these cameras run on is unsurpassed even now. What's surpassed is the hardware, and we're replacing that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technology these cameras run on is unsurpassed even now. What's surpassed is the hardware, and we're replacing that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48958</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[There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15442]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a retreat the lame are formost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49533]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a retreat the lame are formost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. But I'm just happy to be up here with Joane and Karin. I look up to both of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52987</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[When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32542]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is a home-and-road sport and, traditionally, the big schools have always played at home. Now when the smaller schools get them on a neutral court, the gap is not what the public perceives it to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46577]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21056]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34349]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10454]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their patron hints the cold or heat,   To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,  The things that might have been, and yet were not,   The fading twilight of joys departed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly that the heart of man is purified, and that the thoughts are fixed on a better state. Prosperity has power to intoxicate the imagination, to fix the mind upon the present scene, to produce confidence and elation, and to make him who enjoys affluence and honors forget the hand by which they were bestowed. It is seldom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility, or taught to know how little all our acquisitions can conduce to safety or quiet, and how justly we may inscribe to the superintendence of a higher power those blessings which in the wantonness of success we considered as the attainments of our policy and courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46038]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36867]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36867</guid></item></channel></rss>