<?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[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun,   Or how fur we've gone in the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good fall, and that was the year when we had a very good team. So I'm hoping this is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set all at sixe and seven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set all at sixe and seven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38595]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64475]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Need To Know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I Need To Know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23538]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne l'est jamais avec du jugement.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants never sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ants never sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years;  but understanding is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61752]]></link><description><![CDATA[For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years;  but understanding is gray hair for anyone,   and a blameless life is ripe old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's not only big and strong, he's got moves. They were just better than we were tonight. They're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33521]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's not only big and strong, he's got moves. They were just better than we were tonight. They're going to win a lot of football games this year, that's for sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/18360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60909]]></link><description><![CDATA[For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so;  Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so;  Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest,   With a quicker count will go.    Think,--the shadow on the dial     For the nature most undone,      Marks the passing of the trial,       Proves the presence of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   I shall behold your face!    Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like the chance to do a little more performing before I become too old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like the chance to do a little more performing before I become too old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item></channel></rss>