<?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[Silence is one great art of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is one great art of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the museum and we want to create a comfortable place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definitive evidence? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definitive evidence? We have lots of reasons to exercise, so perhaps this is another reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,   To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the patient wanted -- that's why this case is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Buck Stops Here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Buck Stops Here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36803]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3408]]></link><description><![CDATA[After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to go down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we played bad. They just hit the ball (well). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we played bad. They just hit the ball (well).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeble body weakens the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4434]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeble body weakens the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1979]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play,   Came to the mariner's hollo!    "God save thee, ancient Mariner!     From the fiends that plague thus thee!--      Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow       I shot the Albatross."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself; on the contrary, I have always judged it better to loathe myself the more, in proportion as I was assured that God was pacified towards me (Ezekiel 16:63).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16188]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st thou sip and sip it up;    Make the most of life you may;     Life is short and wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49660]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19743]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23557]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension of the mind."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. [Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57634</guid></item></channel></rss>