<?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[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer begins where human capacity ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer begins where human capacity ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait for that first day of practice when everybody steps on that court and we all start on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait for that first day of practice when everybody steps on that court and we all start on that goal of getting to the Final Four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12056]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mills and wives ever want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mills and wives ever want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38141]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories are valid or invalid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about the basis for all these values, I went back and reread the New Testament the other day, from one side to the other, and make certain that I hadn't missed anything. You know what? In the three years of Jesus Christ's mission, of his ministry, there is no mention whatsoever — or even a hint — that you ought to be taking health care or educational opportunity away from children in order to give to the richest people in the world. None whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40020]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41319]]></link><description><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you give them a certificate at graduation, you can see in their eyes a genuine want to stay away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you give them a certificate at graduation, you can see in their eyes a genuine want to stay away from substance abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, have a conference with the teacher and from there the parent or the teacher can determine the next step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39495]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, have a conference with the teacher and from there the parent or the teacher can determine the next step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was proud of the girls for hanging in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was proud of the girls for hanging in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to finalise this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64726]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20525]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing tenacious defense, predicated on great guard play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34231]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49431</guid></item></channel></rss>