<?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 tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or are working on everybody else's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57574]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26814]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson dyes: I look and a great joy clutches my throat!  Plateau of roofs by canyons crossed: windows by thousands fire-furled--   O gazing, how the heart is lost in the Deepest City in the World.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've been around long enough to realize the situation I was in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28697]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red you tend to follow that tradition. My theory is that has a tendency to follow through with what equipment you run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marietta is really coming around. We're very keen on redevelopment in this area and we hope to continue working in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marietta is really coming around. We're very keen on redevelopment in this area and we hope to continue working in this area for at least another few years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20199]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night,  And God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night,  And God within far Heaven refuse to light   The consolation of the dawn for me,--    Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell,     It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell      With memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9285]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62310]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs.  And he clothes them with thunders and beauty,   He clothes them with music and fire,    Seeing not, as he bows by their altars,     That he worships his own desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62310</guid></item></channel></rss>