<?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[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring!  Winning eye and heart completely,   Sing, robin, sing!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring!  Winning eye and heart completely,   Sing, robin, sing!    All among the reeds and rushes,     Where the brook its music hushes,      Bright the caloposon blushes,__       Laugh, O murmuring Spring!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44929]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57380]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances are valid reasons for concern, but they do not on face value substantiate that the machines are not reliable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;   The rage but not the talent to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37528]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29257]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to run drugs, you are going to do time in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been able to accomplish that. They need that off their plate. It is in Haywood County so let Haywood County take it and make something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and fortitude conquer all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and fortitude conquer all things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a challenge to place a dollar value on the important work volunteers do for millions of charitable organizations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a challenge to place a dollar value on the important work volunteers do for millions of charitable organizations and communities across the country. But this number can help put into perspective the enormous contributions provided by our nation's volunteers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their stock to keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19126]]></link><description><![CDATA[But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a very detailed meeting, but he definitely established a feeling right off the bat. He thinks integrity's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30483]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a very detailed meeting, but he definitely established a feeling right off the bat. He thinks integrity's a real big thing. He praised the people that are positive about the program, and who want to uphold its achievements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58789]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50650]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11382]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57199]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song alone,   The deeds of great and noble souls.    [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,     Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;      Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann       Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25711</guid></item></channel></rss>