<?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[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for love but to love more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for love but to love more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4339]]></link><description><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41182]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in that niche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14760]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think it, ink it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think it, ink it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;  And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;  And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine   My message will go kissingly to thine,    With more than Fancy's load of luxury,     And prove a true love-letter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shudder when relating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shudder when relating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could fill   Its little cup twice over, ere the star    Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,     And be no prodigal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis  E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've learned more about the book this way than we would by just reading it. We can better understand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29331]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've learned more about the book this way than we would by just reading it. We can better understand the book and each character by actually becoming the characters. It's made the lesson a lot more fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The Vine, boys, the Vine!    The mother of the mighty Wine,     A roamer is she      O'er wall and tree       And sometimes very good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52875]]></link><description><![CDATA[A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63161]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65761]]></link><description><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. -John Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64574]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34019]]></link><description><![CDATA[This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so young, I just told them that, 'Here's how I snap it and that's where I'm going to keep snapping it.' I pulled rank on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is not true it is very well invented. [It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59812]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is not true it is very well invented. [It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item></channel></rss>