<?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["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and now we have very much achieved the goal of making all content captured available to anybody in our facility on a PC.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38060]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6205]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by holding elections. Silencing the leadership, the king hopes, will silence the people. Such actions belie his stated belief in democratic principles and the rule of law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46478]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52110]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9346]]></link><description><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; The world has grown gray from thy breath;  We have drunken from things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; The world has grown gray from thy breath;  We have drunken from things Lethean,   And fed on the fullness of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us the big unknown is how many people were actually on the ice at the time and how many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36631]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us the big unknown is how many people were actually on the ice at the time and how many may have been able to get out on their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53336]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2208]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth the broads are blind as bats, stumblin through - the systemJustice bumped into M'Tulu, trippin on Geronimo Prattbut stepped right over Oliver and his crooked partner RonnieJustice stubbed her big toe on MandelaAnd Liberty was misquoted by the IndiansSlavery was just a learning phase, forgotten without a verdictwhile Justice is on a rampagefor endangered survivin black malesI mean really; if anyone REALLY valued lifeand cared about the massesThey'd take 'em both to Pen Opticaland get TWO pairs of glassesExcuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesI'm kickin asses up and down New York CityIt's a pityBrothers wanna be grimy and gritty to each otherWhat would your mother think, smotherin your brother?I see you sink, into another levelDancin with the devilTurn up the bass, cause I'm player; also a rhyme sayerKind of fly, layer after layerWhy.. cause I'm blessedCause I've progressedI've learned my lessonsClass has always been in session, so you better take notesAnd stop chokin on negativity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a manager would send a pitcher ahead to the next city to wait for his team. I wanted to give Will the opportunity to do that. Why sit around for five months doing nothing? I figured she could be up there scouting out the hotels and restaurants and sightseeing tours for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While guys are doing repairs in one location, another part of the crew is looting another location in the city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30725]]></link><description><![CDATA[While guys are doing repairs in one location, another part of the crew is looting another location in the city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7703]]></link><description><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trade is better then service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49080]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trade is better then service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!  Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!  Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among,   I woo, to hear thy even-song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment ofthe Palestinianson the Diane Rehm Show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment ofthe Palestinianson the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54032]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was not, as has been supposed, because there is no more need for [the charismatic gifts], "because all the world had become Christian". ... The real cause was: the love of many, of almost all Christians so called, was waxed cold; ... The real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit were no longer to be found in the Christian Church [was that] the Christians were turned heathen again, and had only a dead form left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58097]]></link><description><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997</guid></item></channel></rss>