<?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 fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musick helps not the tooth-ach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musick helps not the tooth-ach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside in the moment of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and go away until Labor Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel happy because I won, but more because the team won and we needed to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel happy because I won, but more because the team won and we needed to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28268]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, and it showed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   And lonely want retir'd to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been working with Dean Gail and the Office of the Dean of Students to make sure that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working with Dean Gail and the Office of the Dean of Students to make sure that the needs of our visitors are met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60696]]></link><description><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done at leisure parfitly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right;  But if to-morrow never came,   No end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right;  But if to-morrow never came,   No end were of "to-night."    The fact is this, time flies so fast,     That e'er we've time to say      "To-morrow's come," presto! behold!       "To-morrow" proves "To-day."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. •Woody Allen  At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box. •Italian Proverb  Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. •Vladimir Nabokov  Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. •George Sanders, his suicide note  There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. •Santayana  Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. •George Bernard Shaw  Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. •Dylan Thomas  To live is to dream and to die is to awaken. •Anonymous   We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. •Nathaniel Hawthorne  All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. •Anatole France   We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. •Plato   Dying is like getting out of a car. You leave a shell behind, but you're the same person as ever. •President Klein  The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy . What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. •Richard Bach  If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. •Albert Camus   We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. •Anatole France  I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. •Jimi Hendrix  The real malady is fear of life, not of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27383]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333</guid></item></channel></rss>