<?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[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of his God,   Erect and free,    Unscourged by Superstition's rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27716]]></link><description><![CDATA[She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of man could navigate   The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss    Securely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make a decision about how you want to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37118]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make a decision about how you want to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing on the side doesn't equate to spring training. There's just not the same intensity. There's nobody with a bat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing on the side doesn't equate to spring training. There's just not the same intensity. There's nobody with a bat in his hands telling you that you just made a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44146]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a baleful star,   Their paths are dream-beguiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew how important this game was. I knew if both teams played at the top of their games, it could go either way. But the conditions do dictate the game a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become whom we eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight   O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.      Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, then admiring a celebrity can have a positive influence on your ambition, or even your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51729]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the hills they went,   In that new world that is the old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were well aware coming into this game that playing Falmouth was going to be a learning experience for many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were well aware coming into this game that playing Falmouth was going to be a learning experience for many of our younger players,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went up a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62123]]></link><description><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63891</guid></item></channel></rss>