<?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 person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything and I think we get discouraged and didn't play as hard on defense. That's a heart issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:   'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!    Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a secret and a power of dealing with the waste-products of life, the waste of pain, disappointment, enmity, death -- turning to divine uses the abuses of man, transforming arid places of pain to fruitfulness, triumphing at last in death, and making a short life of thirty years or so, abruptly cut off, to be a "finished" life. We cannot admire the poise and beauty of this human life, and then ignore the things that made it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense of respect and favour to it. For hereby the very Foundations of Christian Faith have been undermined, and the World prepared for Atheism. And if Reason must not be beard, the Being of a God, and the Authority of Scripture, can neither be proved nor defended; and so our Faith drops to the Ground like a House that hath no Foundation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little strokes fell great oaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little strokes fell great oaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No day so clear but hath dark clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49649]]></link><description><![CDATA[No day so clear but hath dark clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26437]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it because we love it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it because we love it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39755]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32741]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball right now and that we sent a message tonight to the rest of the county: Meade is no pushover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20312]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52013]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal;  To be taken, to be seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10662]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal;  To be taken, to be seen,   These have crimes accounted been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hair so small but hath his shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49650]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hair so small but hath his shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're essentially at the same location as the old Isthmus Playhouse. But that is where the similarity starts and ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're essentially at the same location as the old Isthmus Playhouse. But that is where the similarity starts and ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap metal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we came up with the idea of dressing up as ice princesses. So it's been kind of fun. We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33318]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we came up with the idea of dressing up as ice princesses. So it's been kind of fun. We'd hate to be another person in blaze orange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40295]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not seldom clad in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the dawn,  Not seldom evening in the west   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not seldom clad in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the dawn,  Not seldom evening in the west   Sinks smilingly forsworn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders. Zeal should not outrun discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. I will do so with a heavy heart, for even with the most careful plan, there will be some loss of innocent lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of culture is right living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of culture is right living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27700]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27700</guid></item></channel></rss>