<?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[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26902]]></link><description><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone;And all I loved, I loved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon,   Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth    After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  That it ill behoves any of us   To find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alivewhen my husband gets home from work, then hey, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21104]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alivewhen my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of the bare hill;    The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!     There's joy in the mountains:      There's life in the fountains;       Small clouds are sailing,        Blue sky prevailing;         The rain is over and gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42087]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going to be a really good experience. I can remember looking back watching my first Olympics when I was like 10 years old, so it's cool to be a part of it now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of thoseevents themselvers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48756]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the Index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis: they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal, literary form, by ignoring its historical-grammatical exegesis, by changing the Bible's own perspective of itself as propositional revelation in space and time, in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended its monetary tightening. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended its monetary tightening. There is no possibility for the Fed to stop at the current 4.5 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our players didn't come out and compete at all. It came down to leadership and we didn't show any. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our players didn't come out and compete at all. It came down to leadership and we didn't show any. It looked like our players were hiding and just gave up. Trust me, we will address this in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives well sees a farre off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49375]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives well sees a farre off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23054]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous, faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain alarms, when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the most terrible word we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a great solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039]]></link><description><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34603]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first thought to go to the post office for that kind of service,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34603</guid></item></channel></rss>