<?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[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565]]></link><description><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost time is never found again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost time is never found again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50189]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3796]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55235]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vincent Van Gogh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turpid as its source? [It., Qual diverra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52593]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turpid as its source? [It., Qual diverra quel fiume,  Nel lungo suo cammino,   Se al fonte ancor vicino    E torbido cosi?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds  In loveliness of perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds  In loveliness of perfect deeds,   More strong than all poetic thoughts;    Which he may read that binds the sheaf,     Or builds the house, or digs the grave,      And those wild eyes that watch the waves       In roarings round the coral reef.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the same way I could put fine dished on my table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an honor to be selected to attend National 4-H Conference. These delegates excelled in the 4-H program in Iowa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30500]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an honor to be selected to attend National 4-H Conference. These delegates excelled in the 4-H program in Iowa and will be sharing some of the outstanding programs Iowa 4-H has with participants across the nation. They also have the opportunity to learn about cutting edge youth development programs from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47974]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  In our praying, we should speak to God about Himself -- that is praise; or about His gifts--that is thanksgiving; or about other people -- that is intercession; or about our sins--that is confession and penitence; or about our needs--that is petition. Prayer has five fingers, like a hand, and each in turn must be pointed to God, that our prayer may be full and complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11864]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long,   Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[yet the ratings kept going down. We finally figured it out; people don't dislike John, they're just tired of bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34212]]></link><description><![CDATA[yet the ratings kept going down. We finally figured it out; people don't dislike John, they're just tired of bad news. When they flip on the TV, they want to get AWAY from their problems, not hear about people getting thrown overboard tied to their boat anchor or working out so they can strangle innocent kids faster and better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools tell us if they want it or not and then we route it around to as many schools as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Schools tell us if they want it or not and then we route it around to as many schools as we can. You pick us basically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52474]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the trip, the president will explain that the people of Afghanistan want an end to terrorism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40044]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the trip, the president will explain that the people of Afghanistan want an end to terrorism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25457]]></link><description><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,   Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand   A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name     Mother of exiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item></channel></rss>