<?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[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1304]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices could remain at or above $38 for the next one to two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices could remain at or above $38 for the next one to two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14790]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28635]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their anxiety. To some people that might sound like repression, but I think repression can be a positive value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true that Perry March was named as a suspect in this case in search warrant documentation in mid-September ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33718]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true that Perry March was named as a suspect in this case in search warrant documentation in mid-September of 1996, but to assume or presume that a police officer was with Perry March every second of the day in August and September of 1996 would not be correct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood in Mr Young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59090]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good to shut up sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good to shut up sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. [Lat., Si possem sanior essem.  Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido,   Mens aliud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64828]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65168]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52100]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passedby and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired ofhim, Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' Hereplied, I had not leisure enough. I passed the days insinging. They then said in derision: If you were foolish enoughto sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in thewinter.It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised.   - Isaac D'Israeli,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a fire? A woman.   What lighter than a woman? Nothing.    [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma     Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water a farre off quencheth not fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water a farre off quencheth not fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33866]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33866</guid></item></channel></rss>