<?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 is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in Hell... and in Earth -- death and the rest -- and by itself, sin, we would rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain that is not sin. To me was shown no harder hell than sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment how to express that principle in action. It would assuredly make a difference if Christians, in their approach one to another, realized that, in spite of appearances, they were in fact one. If, in their seeking after external reunion, they realized that they were seeking not to create a unity which does not yet exist, but to find an expression for a unity which does exist, which is indeed the one elemental reality, they would approach one another in a better frame of mind. The common recognition of the principle would in itself be a unifying force of great value, and would dispose those who shared it to approach questions of difference in a spirit of unity which would immensely assist their deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet,   The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;    Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted,     The chances have just begun      For the best jobs haven't been started,       The best work hasn't been done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. -James Nathan Miller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was going to go I think to the Kansas vs. Texas game, but I don't know. My head coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to go I think to the Kansas vs. Texas game, but I don't know. My head coach and AAU coach need to work that out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32716]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On wings of wind came flying all abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18780]]></link><description><![CDATA[On wings of wind came flying all abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/321]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18641]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through all the weary hours,   And meeting strangely at one sudden goal,    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,     Into one beautiful and perfect whole;      And life's long night is ended, and the way       Lies open onward to eternal day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29859]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those.  The bursting tears my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those.  The bursting tears my heart declare;   Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot of challenges, and I look forward to working with the league office to help in any way I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a very foolish person who made any kind of judgement from how he answered tabloid questions at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a very foolish person who made any kind of judgement from how he answered tabloid questions at a press conference,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is gold for you. Sell me your good report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4909]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, man, kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, man, kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. [Ger., So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie fur fertig erklaren, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Moglichste getan hat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24780]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837</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><item><title><![CDATA[Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop  To hang a doubt on--or woe upon thy life!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night,  And swelling like an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night,  And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright,   Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup,    And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the amateur writer lets a bad sentence stand in his final draft, though he knows its bad, the sin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17009]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the amateur writer lets a bad sentence stand in his final draft, though he knows its bad, the sin is frigidity: he has not yet learned the importance of his art...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981</guid></item></channel></rss>