<?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[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear the powerful call.   And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is literature in a hurry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is literature in a hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rising world of waters dark and deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rising world of waters dark and deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48021]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I threw away my phoneI thought that you should knowI'd throw away my homeIf I had somewhere to goAnything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I threw away my phoneI thought that you should knowI'd throw away my homeIf I had somewhere to goAnything to stopThe circle in my brainAnything is better than youMaking me feel lame28 days to kick the habit28 days to let you go28 days and I'll be on my ownAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesWhy should I be sorryI've had enough of youPlease forget my nameI'm runnin around on emptyStill tryin to get awayAnything to killThe consciousness of youAnything to end myselfBefore the thought of you28 days to kick the habit28 days to let you go28 days and I'll be on my ownAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesNow you'll know what it feels like to bite your tongueNow you'll know what it feels like to be the oneWho walks around with knots in your stomachI've been there, and I've done itAnd now you'll know what it feels likeTo always be afraidOf everything you wanted to sayWho's sorry nowWho's sorry nowWho's sorry nowAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesWho's sorry now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a good sign. We definitely hope this is the breakthrough we have been looking for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a good sign. We definitely hope this is the breakthrough we have been looking for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are unconscious but with no penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergency medical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuries are. Then perhaps something can be done early on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5814]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42050]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are counting $15,000 per day since December last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are counting $15,000 per day since December last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54940]]></link><description><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   A little shade, the only one;    But shadows ever man pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see the point, when you're up (127-27). When you score that many like that, it's not how you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see the point, when you're up (127-27). When you score that many like that, it's not how you like to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22429]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever had, all through their lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less you talk, the more you're listened to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less you talk, the more you're listened to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item></channel></rss>