<?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[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That could be moved to smile at anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the underdog always and we like that. Even though we are the higher seed, we've proven nothing to Marquette ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31297]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the underdog always and we like that. Even though we are the higher seed, we've proven nothing to Marquette because they beat us pretty good when we played them. They have good size inside and we had no answers for (Andy) Miller inside the lane. They are very big and strong and we have our work cut out for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little wren's   In snugness may compare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54082]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51499]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10273]]></link><description><![CDATA[But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the outreach of self toward completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the outreach of self toward completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to be damn'd,--in his confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you\'ll make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66890]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you\'ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you\'ll get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,  To tow'rs and windows, yea, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,  To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops,   Your infants in your arms, and there have sat    The livelong day, with patient expectation,     To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church of the Reformation to missions during the Reformation period (1517-1650). Having themselves been emancipated from the superstitions and slavery of a false doctrine and a harsh ecclesiastical government, it would be thought most natural that the Reformers and those who followed them should promptly turn their attention to spreading these glad tidings among non-Christian peoples; but here a strange anomaly is found in the fact that there had been hardly any period, in the entire history of the Christian Church, so destitute of any concerted effort to spread the gospel in heathen lands [as] just this period of the Reformation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53795]]></link><description><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains have,   Thou art the torturer of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who only live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who only live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30724]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a clear message addressed to the journalists in order to [dissuade] them from criticizing the authorities. It's obvious that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29422]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a clear message addressed to the journalists in order to [dissuade] them from criticizing the authorities. It's obvious that referring to terms like territorial integrity, religious hostility, violence, the [Uzbek] authorities mean that they are afraid [of] another riot or revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue alone is happiness below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is happiness below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession Of A Pit Fighter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession Of A Pit Fighter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29599</guid></item></channel></rss>