<?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[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. -James P. Hogan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15455]]></link><description><![CDATA[His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4629]]></link><description><![CDATA[One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are designated friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are designated friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you say it is, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you say it is, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this will be a monster success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32562]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the courts I think will view these cases differently, ... But it will be in the hands of the courts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101]]></link><description><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path to the Mideast is litteredwith Nobel peace laureateswho have not yet achievedwhat can only be achieved ineach heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path to the Mideast is litteredwith Nobel peace laureateswho have not yet achievedwhat can only be achieved ineach heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't kiss an oil well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't kiss an oil well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast by this organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they go,   And mark our actions, good or bad, below:    The immortal spies with watchful care preside,     And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide:      They can reward with glory or with gold,       A power they by Divine permission hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is an African who dreams up snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning experience just going in and having fun and watching the other guys, seeing what they do and just kind of get a feel for what I have to do to get to this level,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -Chief Seattle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41336]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche of a college player. You have to always, constantly try to be on the same page with your players. You can't let them get too far away where you can't tell what they're thinking or what they're feeling. At the same time, it's not a sit-around-the-camp-fire session every day where we are discussing our feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12953]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12953</guid></item></channel></rss>