<?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[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31863]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a camp, ... so I didn't have the chance to be with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a show that's designed just for children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a show that's designed just for children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's an interest, it would be a great feeder program for them and for us. As far as I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39497]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's an interest, it would be a great feeder program for them and for us. As far as I'm concerned, as long as they're playing something, it's a great idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53386]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23116]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49053]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean Martin's albums for Capitol are among the most timeless vocal pop ever recorded. He was a great singer, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dean Martin's albums for Capitol are among the most timeless vocal pop ever recorded. He was a great singer, with a unique, behind-the-beat laconic style that perfectly fit his devil-may-care personality, and made very astute choices as to material and arrangers. And perhaps best of all, he never took himself too seriously, either on record or In life! We're thrilled that he's a big part of our artist roster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32197]]></link><description><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration on either end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt as if Hafez Al Assad was talking! He has send a clear message to his people, Arabs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28331]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt as if Hafez Al Assad was talking! He has send a clear message to his people, Arabs and the whole world that Syria is strong and fear can never find its way into the hearts of Syrians,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6541]]></link><description><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from church officers, with indifferent support from parents, and at times even under a minister who cares for none of these things. Usually the workers themselves have had insufficient training for the job they are asked to perform. And always they work in a secularized culture, in the midst of spiritual illiteracy, where the most commonplace terms in the Bible and the most elemental ideas concerning the Kingdom of God sound strange even to otherwise well-educated adults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is rich is wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15889]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is rich is wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60633]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63478]]></link><description><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2981]]></link><description><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   Dull roots with spring rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11075]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow | a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never say "oops" in the operating room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never say "oops" in the operating room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12459</guid></item></channel></rss>