<?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[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeming genial, venial fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeming genial, venial fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't really have anything to do with the tabloid person, then it doesn't bother you. I'd rather laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't really have anything to do with the tabloid person, then it doesn't bother you. I'd rather laugh and say 'that other Loni Anderson.' I think that's healthy. Otherwise, it can eat you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031]]></link><description><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were times when South River had four players on Johann and Mandel, and we were able to take advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32745]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were times when South River had four players on Johann and Mandel, and we were able to take advantage of that at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  Who is it that has helped you most? Has it not been those who believed in you? Perhaps there may be few such left. The light of expectation may have died out of the most friendly and hopeful eyes; and you yourself may have lost heart. Ah! but there is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ!... It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   The sinewy vigor of the traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10548]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the old dog barke he gives counsell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49515]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the old dog barke he gives counsell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers are just staggering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers are just staggering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are involved in bringing this plant material, which is probably rare and endangered, back into circulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and now we have very much achieved the goal of making all content captured available to anybody in our facility on a PC.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50013]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just couldn't get everyone doing their normal thing. And our shots weren't falling either. With a solid team like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just couldn't get everyone doing their normal thing. And our shots weren't falling either. With a solid team like that, you can't afford to be off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never death because they live in your heart foever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never death because they live in your heart foever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:  In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270</guid></item></channel></rss>