<?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[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516</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[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That follows after prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They met on the streets of Seattle, ... The reason they chose the name The Coats, there were a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29388]]></link><description><![CDATA[They met on the streets of Seattle, ... The reason they chose the name The Coats, there were a lot of rainy nights on the streets, so they got overcoats and wore them. They are young. Very refreshing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sun Clearest shineth  Serenest in the heaven,   Quickly are obscured    All over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58277]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sun Clearest shineth  Serenest in the heaven,   Quickly are obscured    All over the earth     Other stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight to start both games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36693]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50762]]></link><description><![CDATA[That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19885]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A better present makes for a good past and future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A better present makes for a good past and future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it would open up a beautiful part of North Dakota to the whole public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37878]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it would open up a beautiful part of North Dakota to the whole public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for material things. We sadly undervalue prayer when we conceive it in these terms, just as we should underestimate rain by describing it as something that fills the birdbath in our garden. Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality -- the ultimate integration of man's highest faculties. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, when our sun is set,   Which will through Christ a resurrection get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53323]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53935]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42846]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a great person to model yourself after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36158]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7634]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer. That his view of prayer was nothing else but a sense of the Presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine Love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he should have grown stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are easier things in life than trying to find a nice guy...like nailing jelly to a tree for example ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61901]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are easier things in life than trying to find a nice guy...like nailing jelly to a tree for example]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61901</guid></item></channel></rss>