<?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[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still,   Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40646]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have enough equity going into this are much more insulated and can continue on with their projects. Those who were reaching quite a bit could be in a bind now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology improves at a certain rate and some people say at today's pace, we will see limitations within the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology improves at a certain rate and some people say at today's pace, we will see limitations within the next 10 years. If we can find an alternative, improvements would continue rather than slow down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home without books is a body without soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home without books is a body without soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12533]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out -- outsized and outspeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25023]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52819]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ -- can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father -- that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning -- just as, if there were no light in the universe, and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know that it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.    Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and will be a good fit for our hockey club as we prepare for the 2006 playoffs and a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1157]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a fickle place. You see the same thing over and over and over. Art here seems stagnant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36840]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a fickle place. You see the same thing over and over and over. Art here seems stagnant to me. Especially some of these so-called 'Native artists' that are producing craft-type work. But that's the only way you can make any money at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55132</guid></item></channel></rss>