<?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[Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has joined the innocent with the guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50230]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has joined the innocent with the guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free,  We thank with brief thanksgiving   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58993]]></link><description><![CDATA[From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free,  We thank with brief thanksgiving   Whatever gods may be    That no life lives forever;     That dead men rise up never;      That even the weariest river       Winds somewhere safe to sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The driver veered off the roadway edge where his motorcycle struck a section of guardrail causing an ejection, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The driver veered off the roadway edge where his motorcycle struck a section of guardrail causing an ejection,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,   While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping he will play more minutes on Friday but there are aspects to his game that you won't see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping he will play more minutes on Friday but there are aspects to his game that you won't see for about six weeks. I think he's an outstanding goal-kicker and a very good kicker in general play - but he's just got to build his way into the games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Upstate of South Carolina has an excellent engineering resource base that will allow us to continue growing our business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Upstate of South Carolina has an excellent engineering resource base that will allow us to continue growing our business and meeting our customers' expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27541]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slang is a poor man's poetry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slang is a poor man's poetry]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505]]></link><description><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2158]]></link><description><![CDATA[An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns evermore,  Over all the desert sands. Unto all peoples of the earth  A little Child brought light;  And never in the darkest place  Can it be utter night. No flickering torch, no wavering fire,  But Light the Life of men; Whatever clouds may veil the sky,  Never is night again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40686]]></link><description><![CDATA[CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will remain an integral part of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40686</guid></item></channel></rss>