<?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[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone selected for a regular room then gets an endowed room, someone may be pulled up from the wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone selected for a regular room then gets an endowed room, someone may be pulled up from the wait list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20894]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success:Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success:Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1780]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160]]></link><description><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ever since we got here was to go to Salem. We were five minutes away. We can be tired all next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition can creep as well as soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition can creep as well as soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not the future, weep not for the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not the future, weep not for the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is that no matter what we do, the site will be clean when we are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is that no matter what we do, the site will be clean when we are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55079]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreathsRise from the hearthstones of our native hamletsCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over and over to make sure that when I get it up to tempo it actually sounds right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15947]]></link><description><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has afunction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has afunction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced. It is certainly important to have an intellectual grasp of the orb of Christian truth; but it is still more important to have a vital, living experience of the power of Jesus Christ. When a man undergoes treatment from a doctor, he does not need to know the way in which the drug works on his body in order to be cured. There is a sense in which Christianity is like that. At the heart of Christianity there is a mystery, but it is not the mystery of intellectual appreciation; it the mystery of redemption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All movements go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64403]]></link><description><![CDATA[All movements go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra;  Sed vitam faciunt baldea, vina, Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who's a native of Utah, recently said after an appearance at Utah State University ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36890]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who's a native of Utah, recently said after an appearance at Utah State University that Hatch has little chance of winning.] I'm sorry to see (Hatch) make a fool of himself, ... He's a good man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41896]]></link><description><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while it's happening, I'll appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,   And they who follow me reach every state    Mortals desire, and conquer every foe     Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,      Condemned to failure, penury and woe,       Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,        I answer not, and I return no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45077</guid></item></channel></rss>