<?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[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voters can now check how many times Bush resorts to canned remarks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voters can now check how many times Bush resorts to canned remarks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19060]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've seen all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;  Thou with fresh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44553]]></link><description><![CDATA[O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;  Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill   While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41517]]></link><description><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things the right way and take the time to do it right,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have no trouble getting up for a school like Kentucky. The last couple of games we've been shaky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have no trouble getting up for a school like Kentucky. The last couple of games we've been shaky early in the game. [Today] we have to play 40 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably should have said no, ... She just didn't seem like she could take a baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably should have said no, ... She just didn't seem like she could take a baby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been heavy rains in the area and as a result many rivers and streams have flooded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34825]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been heavy rains in the area and as a result many rivers and streams have flooded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be a challenge for (flight crews) who aren't medical professionals. Outwardly, a respiratory infection can look like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be a challenge for (flight crews) who aren't medical professionals. Outwardly, a respiratory infection can look like a common cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6026]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15008]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053]]></link><description><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent moments when we feel lower than the lowest of mankind, and this opinion of ourselves isolates us. Hence the rumor that all flesh is base comes almost as a message of hope. It breaks down the wall that has kept us apart, and we feel one with humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31256]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us to silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58624</guid></item></channel></rss>