<?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[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3278]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25377</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[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14246]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill   And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaither came in ranked nationally so we came out here tonight like we had nothing to lose. So instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaither came in ranked nationally so we came out here tonight like we had nothing to lose. So instead of being uptight, we just came out relaxed and played our game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  A certain group of scholars, mostly German or influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  A certain group of scholars, mostly German or influenced by German protestant theology, has rushed to abandon positions before they were attacked, and to demythologize the Gospel message when there was no clear evidence that intelligent minds outside the Church were any more frightened by her mystery than by her morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are studies that show there are actual biological changes, and some of them create adverse consequences. The vast majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are studies that show there are actual biological changes, and some of them create adverse consequences. The vast majority of people out there have no clue. Our position is simple. As a public health and safety issue, [headsets] should have been supplied, like using a seat belt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like the last 15 minutes of the Syracuse game. We played hard and we got into each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like the last 15 minutes of the Syracuse game. We played hard and we got into each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land she travels from?Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64498]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31263]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only reason I learned that we had a tornado was because a friend warned me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We didn't really play 40 minutes of basketball. The key (to playing a transition game) was the defensive intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they always talk about what a great person he is first and that means more to me than anything because that's what will take him a long way in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28984]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such as the dominance of technology and Internet-based brands. Companies that take a proactive approach to managing their brands are in a much better position to earn respect from their customers, as exemplified by the top-ranked brands on the list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is run by C students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is run by C students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13580]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11658]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?   Reply, reply.    It is engend'red in the eyes,     With gazing fed, and fancy dies      In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item></channel></rss>