<?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[Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's anything serious that will keep him out for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a very, very important part of our program. She really has produced. She has more home runs now than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30021]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a very, very important part of our program. She really has produced. She has more home runs now than in her whole career. She's using the whole field now, hitting home runs to right field and left field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. -Robert M. Pirsig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring   That feels the Master Melody--and snaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40065]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337]]></link><description><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church-going bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church-going bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230]]></link><description><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion ofknowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; itrepresents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; itrepresents the wise choice of many alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dare to love their country, and be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dare to love their country, and be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have one true friend you have more than your share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have one true friend you have more than your share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64401</guid></item></channel></rss>