<?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[A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/444]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13656]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36624]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under the market economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The FDA believes that a physician who prescribes, dispenses, and/or administers HGH for an unauthorized use violates federal law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The FDA believes that a physician who prescribes, dispenses, and/or administers HGH for an unauthorized use violates federal law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell   At ebb of tide."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs,  Some awake and some asleep,   Sleeping in our crowns. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs,  Some awake and some asleep,   Sleeping in our crowns.    What perchance our dreams may know,     Let our serious may know.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years ago we said, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years ago we said,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious Christians, makes people catch the love of God from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22199]]></link><description><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because people want to come out and hear us. The goal is to keep building, and that takes time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the same way I could put fine dished on my table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135]]></link><description><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Stallings was one of the top pitchers in the conference. We lost him towards the end of last year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jeff Stallings was one of the top pitchers in the conference. We lost him towards the end of last year and that really hurt us. Joey Devine was one of the top pitchers ever in this conference, which he proved by what he did after he left here, making the big leagues in two months. Phil Davidson who was so versatile and played so many roles for us. He started, he came in in the sixth inning, came in the third, spot-started. He even closed some games. Phil was amazing for us. When a guy can do that many things for you, you're not just missing one pitcher; it's like you're missing three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48422</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've always written in a free, unencumbered way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474</guid></item></channel></rss>