<?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[I was a little country hick boy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a little country hick boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on EleanorRoosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21595]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on EleanorRoosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw,  And birds sit brooding in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45340]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw,  And birds sit brooding in the snow,   And Marian's nose looks red and raw,    When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,     Then nightly sings the staring owl,      Tu-who;       Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,        While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you to recant your statement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And not a vanity is given in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60384]]></link><description><![CDATA[And not a vanity is given in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35087]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The delay) has come from chambers, but that is the only guidance I have. The conclusions of law will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38089]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The delay) has come from chambers, but that is the only guidance I have. The conclusions of law will not be issued today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested or have the time to ask questions. But I understand where they are at this moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44411]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56759]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who live as models for the mass   Are singly of more value than they all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dad is running around in jeans and a T-shirt, you want to look different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35657]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dad is running around in jeans and a T-shirt, you want to look different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53773]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable position one could hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,   Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46343]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46230]]></link><description><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but stand out there and think how amazing it is with all the connections, including Glen Sather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but stand out there and think how amazing it is with all the connections, including Glen Sather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2038]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19481]]></link><description><![CDATA[No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34193]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66464]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66464</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[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38400]]></link><description><![CDATA[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because those costs are considered discretionary and all we have to cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own. [Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own. [Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman that deliberates is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman that deliberates is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. [All] things not only may have something to do with the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He lives and reigns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pitch to Hannah was too close to take, we have to be swinging. But, regardless of the situation, Hannah ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pitch to Hannah was too close to take, we have to be swinging. But, regardless of the situation, Hannah has done a great job of driving in runs for us and he'll learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746</guid></item></channel></rss>