<?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[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47800]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18275]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not my area, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not my area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, January is slow. ... Why not? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, January is slow. ... Why not?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't mix the split in, we're going to wait a couple of outings and let him air out before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't mix the split in, we're going to wait a couple of outings and let him air out before mixing in the split in outing three or four. We're guarding it with kid gloves right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You clearly have to keep watching this inflation issue. You do have to have some concern that, based on history, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You clearly have to keep watching this inflation issue. You do have to have some concern that, based on history, the current amount of economic growth should lead to inflation. But if you talk to companies, it's not happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union of hands--   And the flag of our Union for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience is so uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main,  Another plank encountered,   Meets, touches, parts again; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main,  Another plank encountered,   Meets, touches, parts again;    So tossed, and drifting ever,     On life's unresting sea,      Men meet, and greet, and sever,       Parting eternally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25389]]></link><description><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but we are the weirdest herd I have ever seen.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27825]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12356]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel sorry for these poor children, knowing that we could have made a difference in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add to golden numbers golden numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add to golden numbers golden numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,  For then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15058]]></link><description><![CDATA[My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,  For then she never looks upon her lure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17935]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Venice, Tass's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier;  Her palaces are crumbling to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60478]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Venice, Tass's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier;  Her palaces are crumbling to the shore,   And music meets not always now the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the things I might have said that fester. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the things I might have said that fester.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52213]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, honor, dignity, and how they are viewed in different societies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3122]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [It., Alta vendetta  D'alto silenzio e figlia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [It., Alta vendetta  D'alto silenzio e figlia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757</guid></item></channel></rss>