<?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[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so young, I just told them that, 'Here's how I snap it and that's where I'm going to keep snapping it.' I pulled rank on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37062]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's life, there's hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's life, there's hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for a state response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:  And some, with whom compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1966]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:  And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes   Are but the beings of a summer's day,    Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled the Storm     Of mighty War; then, with victorious hand,      Disdaining little delicacies, seized       The Plough, and, greatly independent, scorned        All the vile stores corruption can bestow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56854]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehoods border on truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehoods border on truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When (negotiations) broke last night, everybody made sure everyone had everyone's phone numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When (negotiations) broke last night, everybody made sure everyone had everyone's phone numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it is totally disrespectful of the local community, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31112]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it is totally disrespectful of the local community,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53368]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. But we still have to have the right form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1039]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All the mountain-prisoned rivers,    And thy great heart beats and quivers,     To revive the days that were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597</guid></item></channel></rss>