<?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[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45706]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future ain't what it used to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future ain't what it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Cel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55630]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Cel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744</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[Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cincinnati blitzed pretty much every other down against Eastern Michigan last week. We just have to be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cincinnati blitzed pretty much every other down against Eastern Michigan last week. We just have to be ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictionsprecede great actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22322]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictionsprecede great actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27502]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32463]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -- the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around Salem, so we've been able to bring them back into the hospital. We haven't been that lucky with Richard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  As one near death to those that wish him live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225</guid></item></channel></rss>