<?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[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17915]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was horrible. Especially because it got worse and worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30975]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was horrible. Especially because it got worse and worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26410]]></link><description><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  It is not for nothing that the central rite of Christ's religion is not a fast but a feast, as if to say that the one indispensable requirement for obtaining a portion in Him is an appetite, some hunger -- is to be without what we must have and He can give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43009]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,  And the far-off stream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,  And the far-off stream is dumb,   And the whirring sail goes round,    And the whirring sail goes round;     Alone and warming his five wits,      The white owl in the belfry sits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain you at dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiatesuccess before it will come to us. We must first become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiatesuccess before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from anattitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love andmercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian Anderson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14093]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire is known,   Each has his will, and each pursues his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the lamest lame duck there could be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient sages sought,   Physic and food in sour and sweet,    To take what passes in good part,     And keep the hiccups from the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody will lose including Poland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA already has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rome! my country! city of the soul! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rome! my country! city of the soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron,  Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?   Ce fut le serpent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron,  Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?   Ce fut le serpent qui creva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item></channel></rss>