<?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[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5452]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,   Nor looks to see the breaking day    Across the mournful marbles play!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This damage is straight line winds that took a long and narrow path. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33182]]></link><description><![CDATA[This damage is straight line winds that took a long and narrow path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many hands make light work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many hands make light work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18372]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that is yours. The only place on the planet that understands you. It understands the way your nerves flare everytime you think about talking to anyone, scared into shyness at the thought of opening your mouth but the way you are the best hypocrite around when you're in front of a microphone. It knows what turns that switch on and off and on again. It understands the way when you don't have a smile on your face everyone only spits: "what's wrong"s and "you look tired"s. So the way you keep it on your face just wide enough to avoid questions. It understands how neurotic you have become, the way you treat your flaws like old friends. The way you look in the mirror and think of yourself as "Mr. Misery"...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14499]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,   And as silently steal away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee 100 percent employment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20734]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my best meanings, I remain   Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new term, ... What it does is make us more aware of what we're doing. We do care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new term, ... What it does is make us more aware of what we're doing. We do care about the students and want all of them to be successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37803]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler. [Lat., Componitur orbis  Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus   Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At that point, we'd stop recycling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36400]]></link><description><![CDATA[At that point, we'd stop recycling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59903]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent opportunity for it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent opportunity for it to happen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: that they should correct in mercy whatever they can; that what they cannot, they should patiently bear, and affectionately lament, till God either reform and correct it, or, at the harvest, root up the tares and sift out the chaff. All pious persons should study to fortify themselves with these counsels, lest, while they consider themselves as valiant and strenuous defenders of righteousness, they depart from the Kingdom of Heaven, which is the only Kingdom of righteousness. For since it is the will of God that the communion of his church should be maintained in this external society, those who, from an aversion of wicked men, destroy the token of that society, enter on a course in which they are in great danger of falling from the communion of the saints.   .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19366]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,   Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10869]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</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[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441</guid></item></channel></rss>