<?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[Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,  The sapless habit daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,  The sapless habit daily to bedew,   And give the hesitating wheels of life    Gliblier to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our case is new, we must think and act anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64654]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our case is new, we must think and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708]]></link><description><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get the less you know what is inside your body. You have to be checked to make sure nothing is going wrong ... There is nothing to be afraid of. It's something that, if you catch it early enough, you can avoid more complicated problems in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13832]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of the Christian salvation,... the Church itself will not be much enriched by an accession of panic-stricken fugitives from a Personal God. And many unhappy young people are discovering now that Church membership is not the equivalent of being reconciled to God, and a kind of Confirmation is not a substitute for Conversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve  By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26471]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve  By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath   Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze,    Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird     Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.      Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed       The air is delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51482]]></link><description><![CDATA[O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and guests smell after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and guests smell after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None in the village hears him go;    E'en chanticleer keeps very still,     For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49121]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to go places that are not tourist traps, ... We have enough of those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to go places that are not tourist traps, ... We have enough of those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the younger kids really look up to those seniors. I'll see them sometimes gather around them during practice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the younger kids really look up to those seniors. I'll see them sometimes gather around them during practice. Just the other day there were some throwers that I hadn't taught yet. They were picking things up and making corrections just from watching Donnie and Randall throw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day,  Which now shows all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51533]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day,  Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,   And by and by a cloud takes all away!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13146]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day,   Christ hath brought us life again,    Wherefore let us all rejoice,     Singing loud, with cheerful voice,      Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13897]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553</guid></item></channel></rss>