<?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[In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65023]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14320]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35490]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 games, there's 6,000 people waiting to meet you at the airport when you go home. But with us, with our tradition, people say, 'What happened?' We're just a team that came close . . . a team that almost had a chance to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12989]]></link><description><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want to take a step back. My confidence is through the roof. Confidence is what you have to have at this level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. Nobody could picture me in any other type of role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33740]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. Nobody could picture me in any other type of role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere else, ... Eventually, we are going to lose that population.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[If] there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8415]]></link><description><![CDATA[[If] there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47008</guid></item></channel></rss>