<?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[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not without art, but yet to Nature true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not without art, but yet to Nature true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15277]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. Thatkeeps me on my toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21547]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. Thatkeeps me on my toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618]]></link><description><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;   Glittering in golden coats like images;    As full of spirit as the month of May     And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;      Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to them, If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport. Abstain and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31951]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of out of sync at times, but we definitely executed when the game was on the line; all eight players contributed to the win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   And rest I well know where.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13232]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope to be profitable later this year, because we keep increasing our prizes as we grow our user base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope to be profitable later this year, because we keep increasing our prizes as we grow our user base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high   Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,    He shall not blind his soul with clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge   In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair    Shakes pestilence and war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60432]]></link><description><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't. Tuition goes up every year anyway. It's hard enough to keep up with now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't. Tuition goes up every year anyway. It's hard enough to keep up with now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28007]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47297]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55090]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9636]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only the living who are killed in war.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64356]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only the living who are killed in war.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64356</guid></item></channel></rss>