<?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[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56186]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57194]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't wrapping up. We weren't tackling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't wrapping up. We weren't tackling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59547]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42525]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. (to her husband) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. (to her husband)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One with the law is a majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One with the law is a majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is about as big as the things that make him angry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2521]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is about as big as the things that make him angry]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547]]></link><description><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city was extremely helpful. The Planning Department they really walked us through (the process). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city was extremely helpful. The Planning Department they really walked us through (the process).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,   Our great redemption from above did bring,    For so the holy sages once did sing,     That He our deadly forfeit should release,      And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450</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/66736]]></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/66736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath the spice, may season as he list. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49358]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath the spice, may season as he list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61527</guid></item></channel></rss>