<?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[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44845]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they always talk about what a great person he is first and that means more to me than anything because that's what will take him a long way in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep; Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep; Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that there is no human relationship between master and slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it;  That when you get an easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23424]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it;  That when you get an easy thing,   You find you haven't got it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I cry at night because I wonder how my family will get on without her. She was the glue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I cry at night because I wonder how my family will get on without her. She was the glue that held our family together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28049]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9830]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This development today means justice and home affairs ministers are willing to accept a legal process that will let all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35202]]></link><description><![CDATA[This development today means justice and home affairs ministers are willing to accept a legal process that will let all branches of government decide the issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passed by the row of meats at the Safewayand was afraid to buyWall St Journal reporter on the Diane ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passed by the row of meats at the Safewayand was afraid to buyWall St Journal reporter on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41334]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't wake up in August 2003 and decide to be on the next ballot. This took many efforts at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32327]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't wake up in August 2003 and decide to be on the next ballot. This took many efforts at financing and planning this building.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a very big size advantage. We really turned our defense up [in the fourth quarter], which we really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40554]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a very big size advantage. We really turned our defense up [in the fourth quarter], which we really should have been doing the whole game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood toashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40569]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They brought the left-hander to turn Lance around and he came up with a big hit immediately, ... Lane did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30464]]></link><description><![CDATA[They brought the left-hander to turn Lance around and he came up with a big hit immediately, ... Lane did a great job battling against Devine getting a single. They all had good at-bats, but Lance's was the one that opened the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case to work around the clock at the most dangerous disaster site in historyGround Zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that theysatisfy you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  Love ... is very noticeable as fervour and devotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  Love ... is very noticeable as fervour and devotion and jubilation, and is yet not always the best thing; for sometimes it is not from love but is caused by nature that one has such taste and sweetness; or it may be a heavenly impression or it may be produced by the senses, and those who have most of this are not always the best. For even if it should be from God, our Lord gives this to such men in order to attract and charm them, and also to detach them from others. But if these same people later grow in love, they may not have so many feelings, and then it will become clear that they have love, if they remain wholly faithful to God without any such support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man,   He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even get an allowance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even get an allowance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1280]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31326</guid></item></channel></rss>