<?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[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They live in their cars. They're setting up tents on the beach again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37610]]></link><description><![CDATA[They live in their cars. They're setting up tents on the beach again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38284</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[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,   As keen-eyed, cold and fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a train wreck. They can't look away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a train wreck. They can't look away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a lot more people employed (in Northwest Arkansas) and they?re a whole lot more food insecure and hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33387]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a lot more people employed (in Northwest Arkansas) and they?re a whole lot more food insecure and hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15148]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have any attacks, it's easy to let the program slip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38966]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have any attacks, it's easy to let the program slip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything?  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,   Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ensuring ... the program is not being taken advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2783]]></link><description><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! [It., O dignitosa coscienza e netta,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9797]]></link><description><![CDATA[O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! [It., O dignitosa coscienza e netta,  Come t' e picciol fallo amaro morso.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever won silver. We came through there, and we think we can do it again at the Olympics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to convert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to convert that talent into international success,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66030]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine that many people come to our small city every year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine that many people come to our small city every year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a favorite place to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39910]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a favorite place to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10210]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race went well but the start was difficult. The gun isn't loud enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race went well but the start was difficult. The gun isn't loud enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63703</guid></item></channel></rss>