<?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[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63904]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April can be a violent month. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30688]]></link><description><![CDATA[April can be a violent month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thy opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thy opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity is there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity is there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is not a rational act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is not a rational act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716]]></link><description><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forecasts are optimistic. The river will probably remain stable for another two days and then start to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forecasts are optimistic. The river will probably remain stable for another two days and then start to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fickle and capricious woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fickle and capricious woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's a sad situation. Illegal, nonetheless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he is a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. - "Usenet posting in talk.politics.guns".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is my church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is my church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin -- their numbers are up, but it's still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin -- their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890 O Jesus, King most wonderful!   O Conqueror renowned! O Source of peace ineffable,   In whom all joys are found:  When once you visit darkened hearts   Then truth begins to shine, Then earthly vanity departs,   Then kindles love divine. O Jesus, light of all below,   The fount of life and fire,  Surpassing all the joys we know,   All that we can desire: May ev'ry heart confess your name,   Forever you adore, And, seeking you, itself inflame   To seek you more and more! Oh, may our tongues forever bless,   May we love you alone  And ever in our lives express   The image of your own!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were still 385 alcohol-related crashes this year and 418 deaths in those crashes... that's more than one a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were still 385 alcohol-related crashes this year and 418 deaths in those crashes... that's more than one a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437]]></link><description><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all those fine lines. It's just looking for any edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30751]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all those fine lines. It's just looking for any edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21383]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that gifts persuade even the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54781</guid></item></channel></rss>