<?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[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps.Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35550]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause;  And aiming at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause;  And aiming at the self-same end,   Satire is always virtue's friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been some conflict with old-time ranchers being engulfed with new development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been some conflict with old-time ranchers being engulfed with new development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full restoration, if you're talking about the way they were in 1972, I think is impossible. A lot of cities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full restoration, if you're talking about the way they were in 1972, I think is impossible. A lot of cities have been built in the lowlands that have been dried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay  In the steep Atlantic stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58334]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay  In the steep Atlantic stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity lets goe the bridle. [Prosperity lets go the bridle.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity lets goe the bridle. [Prosperity lets go the bridle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to us of our own mortality. For these reasons, we wear black.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--   Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59798]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird  In his good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird  In his good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job early in the game but were able to come on late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving McCarthy was a disciplinary measure. Whoever does not obey leaves. Be it the best player or the best paid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving McCarthy was a disciplinary measure. Whoever does not obey leaves. Be it the best player or the best paid player. The team has to be more important than any player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42539]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religious faith or political conviction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14428</guid></item></channel></rss>