<?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[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June,  Sole noise that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June,  Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon,   When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivers neede a spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivers neede a spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the barrel on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because other teams do something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept lifeunquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run awayfrom, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in theend. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy,and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one forhim who has the vision to recognize it as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance;  The field, the forest, green and gay;   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance;  The field, the forest, green and gay;   The dappled slope, the tedded hay;    Sees the reddening orchard blow,     The Harvest wave, the vintage flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives,  Meets the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61797]]></link><description><![CDATA[He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives,  Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;   Till one calls him, who varies not his call,    But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,     Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;      A freedom far less welcome than this chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were afraid this would set a precedent and end up nibbling away at our coastline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34474]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were afraid this would set a precedent and end up nibbling away at our coastline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38203]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We acquire the strength we have overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We acquire the strength we have overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession Of A Pit Fighter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession Of A Pit Fighter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52374]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39452]]></link><description><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very pleased with today's wave of signings. Salim and Jacobi will add strength and speed to the defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very pleased with today's wave of signings. Salim and Jacobi will add strength and speed to the defense for 2006; Drew and Oral will add some flair and character to our attacking abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11550]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;  True patriots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45763]]></link><description><![CDATA[From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;  True patriots all; for be it understood   We left our country for our country's good.    No private views disgraced our generous zeal,     What urged our travels was our country's weal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61856]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute:  Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,  Is there not rain enough in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,  Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens   To wash it white as snow?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;   How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323</guid></item></channel></rss>