<?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[Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his mistress. His work is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his mistress. His work is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reborn, Sapphowears monks' saffron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reborn, Sapphowears monks' saffron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Length the Fox turnes Monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49143]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Length the Fox turnes Monk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17716]]></link><description><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48157]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every member of the third-year class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46030]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past 15 years or so, ... there has been a shift of some academics who view McCarthy as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past 15 years or so, ... there has been a shift of some academics who view McCarthy as crude but his cause correct that communists needed to be weeded out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59770]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10422]]></link><description><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. [Ruth 1:16].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11150]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,or you can be full of the love you shared.You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.You can remember her only that she is gone,or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what she'd want:smile, open your eyes, love and go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204]]></link><description><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27176]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully I'll be up here again in a better position in the coming years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully I'll be up here again in a better position in the coming years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20278]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57154</guid></item></channel></rss>