<?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[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24836]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship that can end never really began ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship that can end never really began]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not about how long we live but about how fulfilled we can get in the short time we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not about how long we live but about how fulfilled we can get in the short time we have to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, being strong means not holding back the tears but letting them fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, being strong means not holding back the tears but letting them fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We even have some of the boys peeking over the fence watching our games. That did not used to happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37475]]></link><description><![CDATA[We even have some of the boys peeking over the fence watching our games. That did not used to happen. We kind of got their attention. Everybody knows about the baseball program. We're trying to establish that respect for our softball program. Support has been tremendous. What's neat is that some kids are stopping me in the hall and telling me they are coming out for softball next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63960]]></link><description><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put a dog on a chain, it's going to get aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37264]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put a dog on a chain, it's going to get aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  Look heavenward, if you wish, but never to the horizon; that way danger lies. Truth is not there, happiness is not there, certainty is not there, but the falsehoods, the frauds, the quackeries, the ignes fatui (false beacons) which have deceived each generation all beckon from the horizon and lure the men not content to look for the truth and happiness that tumble out at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24386]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I concede! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243]]></link><description><![CDATA[I concede!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight, Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea? Ah, how the City of our God is fair! If, without sea, and starless though it be, For joy of the majestic beauty there, Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15827]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're Crockett and Tubbs from 'Miami Vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're Crockett and Tubbs from 'Miami Vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15302]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13918]]></link><description><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where English minds and manners may be found,   Shall be constrained to love thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9146]]></link><description><![CDATA[To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where passion leads or prudence points the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where passion leads or prudence points the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the race I was a little disappointed because that was the second time I lost to that kid. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41780]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the race I was a little disappointed because that was the second time I lost to that kid. I thought maybe if it was on a different track I could have beaten that kid, but that's part of racing, the type of track you're on and stuff like that. I always want to win, but that's kind of a reality. It was a good showing to be there and finish second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through   Under the Andes to the Cape,    Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We started giving him some game time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jonesby 2 Cincinnati policemen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252</guid></item></channel></rss>