<?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[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575]]></link><description><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talked to [manager Frank Robinson] and the GM [Jim Bowden] and told them I am going to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talked to [manager Frank Robinson] and the GM [Jim Bowden] and told them I am going to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58907]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2302]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31340]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your own home. He's probably going to redevelop the whole piece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another a baby-sitting list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The town just turned into gridlock, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The town just turned into gridlock,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s just a sign of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us six months' worth of supply, meeting at least up to 25 percent of the region's water demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  God's unchangeableness is the very foundation of desire and hope and activity in things religious as in things natural. The uniformity of nature's operations in the one, and the constancy of God's promises in the other, give aim and certainty to events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39608]]></link><description><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1173]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63637]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Roman came here he wanted to quickly get the club up to a certain level, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35069]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Roman came here he wanted to quickly get the club up to a certain level,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47895]]></link><description><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64742</guid></item></channel></rss>