<?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[Step after step the ladder is ascended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to show the breadth of his expertise as an artist, and how he impacted the preservation of Weir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to show the breadth of his expertise as an artist, and how he impacted the preservation of Weir Farm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are charms made only for distant admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5781]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are charms made only for distant admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's completely irrelevant whether something is good or bad or valuable or worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41394]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's completely irrelevant whether something is good or bad or valuable or worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185]]></link><description><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,   To-morrow may be dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,   Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,    Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;     And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,      An alligator stuffed, and other skins       Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves        A beggarly account of empty boxes,         Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,          Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses           Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14675]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Every pitcher in America's going to say, 'Darn it, that shouldn't have been hit.' But he hit my pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone who is entrusted with the task of talking about the situation in Myanmar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66598]]></link><description><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13748]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a certain appeal in terms of solving a couple of problems on both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a certain appeal in terms of solving a couple of problems on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35089]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to Ronald Reagan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, I would rather be right than be President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, I would rather be right than be President.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The FTC is beginning to require] a lot more when they have a problem, ... They are going to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40002]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The FTC is beginning to require] a lot more when they have a problem, ... They are going to make sure one of these doesn't slip through the cracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33784]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come  Where in the shadow of a great affliction,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1667]]></link><description><![CDATA[With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come  Where in the shadow of a great affliction,   The soul sits dumb!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - The Wisdom of the Heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12544</guid></item></channel></rss>