<?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[With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46820]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It was a good experience for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horses make a landscape look beautiful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horses make a landscape look beautiful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a lot of information today. I think today is probably a quiet day depending on what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a lot of information today. I think today is probably a quiet day depending on what the stock market does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30643]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get to shore as soon as I could. The thought crossed my mind that I might not make it back in and it was just pretty hectic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that [children are] any more resilient than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that [children are] any more resilient than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32663]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not disappointing to lose; we have lost before, but to lose with little or no effort is upsetting. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not disappointing to lose; we have lost before, but to lose with little or no effort is upsetting. When you don't listen to what's being told it becomes rather frustrating. Like I told the guys, I will tell you what I want you to do and when it doesn't work, I'll take the blame but if you don't do what you are asked nothing can work. We had four guys doing one thing and one guy doing something else. It was one of our worst outings of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1919]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to say to this spiritual hunger, which is not assuaged by legalized abortion and homosexuality, solaced by contraception, or relieved by majority rule. Nor will it take comfort in the thought that God is dead, or that mankind has come of age, or even in ecumenical negotiations for writing off Papal Infallibility against the validity of Anglican Orders. The only means of satisfying it remains that bread of life which Jesus offered, with the promise that those who are of it should never hunger again. The promise stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dave Weldon is the one who loses the most here because he isn't going out of his way to show ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dave Weldon is the one who loses the most here because he isn't going out of his way to show his complete record. He's going to let this case cloud his reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowhere to fall but off; Nowhere to stand but on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowhere to fall but off; Nowhere to stand but on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32830]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and I can't speak highly enough of what he has achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a dead equation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65155]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a dead equation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, though not animate,   Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould,    That only eyes of spirits might behold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it's a deal killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it's a deal killer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,   That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;     And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,      Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38737]]></link><description><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the word, Josh Bell populates his daft American heartland with the runaway muse Ramona and her clones. The resulting landscapes are as dangerous, funny, and drop-dead gorgeous as those in a Road Runner cartoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our senior year we'd be good. We're trying to do more than make the playoffs. That was our expectations at the beginning of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a deal that started out 24 years ago with three or four of us that were tired of sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a deal that started out 24 years ago with three or four of us that were tired of sitting around watching football games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2507]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39278]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share for pensions, but here, the town pays it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know what it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know what it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8747]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8747</guid></item></channel></rss>