<?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 have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29859]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4778]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intimates are predestined ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intimates are predestined]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is sometimes saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20713]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is sometimes saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wants to beat Michael on the track because it is the same as beating (Lance) Armstrong in the Tour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to beat Michael on the track because it is the same as beating (Lance) Armstrong in the Tour de France,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65925]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high- quality goods, such as Isetan, are good picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62364]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;  Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence enough, but little wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65224]]></link><description><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough because we have lost some tough games this season. It's an area I hope we can solve by the time we begin region play because that is when it counts the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10726]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's brown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I went on TV I got a threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I went on TV I got a threat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52561]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26735]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30989]]></link><description><![CDATA[My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64874</guid></item></channel></rss>