<?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[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21354]]></link><description><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main thing is to make history, not to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main thing is to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51721]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant himself afresh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really hoping for a good showing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31775]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really hoping for a good showing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no limit to our discussion. Everything is on the table. It is time to turn the page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30088]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no limit to our discussion. Everything is on the table. It is time to turn the page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on the same page with all of us. Just like Pedro [Martinez]. Pedro was used to doing his own thing, but you win 15 to 20 games every year, you've earned the respect of your teammates, and nobody is going to [complain] about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13983]]></link><description><![CDATA[An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to make us feel right at home. We're lucky to have so many good skaters to work with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to make us feel right at home. We're lucky to have so many good skaters to work with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either of them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56851]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast   The sun ariseth in his majesty;    Who doth the world so gloriously behold     That cedar tops and hills seem burnished gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your decision will cause him to be one way or anotherin a box.. either a cement one or a pine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your decision will cause him to be one way or anotherin a box.. either a cement one or a pine one (a jailor a coffin).Jonathan Shapiro, Muhammad's attorneyto jurySome websites say that Muhammad was at Ft Lewis, a Muslimlike other Muslims recruited by the US military for a blackops camp in Alabama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most sweetly sing,   Sings in the shade when all things rest:    In lark and nightingale we see     What honor hath humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3222</guid></item></channel></rss>