<?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[Slang is a poor man's poetry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slang is a poor man's poetry]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugs are part of everybody life for me. I’ll hug all sorts of people- I don’t worry about it looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hugs are part of everybody life for me. I’ll hug all sorts of people- I don’t worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her they mean   No more than on the thing they lean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the middle of both countries. I thought it would be a good idea ... And the weather is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the middle of both countries. I thought it would be a good idea ... And the weather is so nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25106]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. -Anita Roddick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34985</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[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day path. How can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day path. How can we remember this with our actions?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17771]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day,  Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46843]]></link><description><![CDATA["There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day,  Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve   And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's very much difference between Murray State, which is picked to win, and Morehead State [which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's very much difference between Murray State, which is picked to win, and Morehead State [which is picked last].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another .... And if they can but get to be of a Sect which they think the holiest (as the Anabaptists and the Separatists), or which is the largest (as the Greeks and the Romans), they think then that they are sufficiently warranted to deny others to be God's Church, or at least to deny them Christian love and communion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, by going to New York City we are going home because one out of every four city residents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, by going to New York City we are going home because one out of every four city residents is a Latino.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue--   Emblem of friends and lovers true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most sweetly sing,   Sings in the shade when all things rest:    In lark and nightingale we see     What honor hath humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11232]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,   The abodes of happy millions, were no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance shouldn't be a factor in a relationship but communication, trust and commitment should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance shouldn't be a factor in a relationship but communication, trust and commitment should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's whar de old folks stay.    All up and down de whole creation,     Sadly I roam,      Still longing for de old plantation,       And for de old folks at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries   For what has been and is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32917]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of a situation or a threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item></channel></rss>