<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of darkness grows?    Who, through what funereal pain,     Souls to love and peace attain?   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for more university partners in Iowa City to provide our graduates with more options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37624]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for more university partners in Iowa City to provide our graduates with more options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The river past, and God forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The river past, and God forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying companies that are repatriating large sums and doing what they can to get their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24106]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59289]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55396]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908]]></link><description><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation that doth goad us on   To sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both crimson and lime hue. Obey traffic rules? Birdies need not. Masters listen onlyto the inner voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44798]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.  Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30125]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like to see grown men bickering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes that they had taken: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16102]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes that they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth, thou shalt catch men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the force of arms give place to law and justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, fleeting, and way too precious to waste waiting around for happiness to hit you over the head and make itself known. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made - by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One crosses by a single stone    So narrow one must pass alone,     And all about its waters fret--      The laughing river I-forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically they've submitted some additional information to the Department of Public Health that we are going to be looking at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically they've submitted some additional information to the Department of Public Health that we are going to be looking at so there has been no changes to the allegations or to the violations yet. The status hearing is now set for March 10th.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that and understand how they have to play the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48130</guid></item></channel></rss>