<?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[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966]]></link><description><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) have not pulled any business from GM over our support of MADD.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35628]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She can control the ball, take it away from other players and stop impossible shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36821]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but the overall impact of the format has still been nominal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds our bodies and minds and souls in the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, we wouldn't want to make any statements based on one round of sampling. If there's much mixing going on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, we wouldn't want to make any statements based on one round of sampling. If there's much mixing going on, it could be difficult or impossible to tease apart the different sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750]]></link><description><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22039]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,  E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of Nature's own creating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will burne his house, to warme his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49419]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will burne his house, to warme his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deal with temptation by yielding to it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deal with temptation by yielding to it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5683]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25330]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have closed all the holes and gaps. The situation on the border is now stable. The mess that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41318]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have closed all the holes and gaps. The situation on the border is now stable. The mess that we have had in the last few days is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942]]></link><description><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597</guid></item></channel></rss>