<?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[Every disasters screams for humor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every disasters screams for humor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/606]]></link><description><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To make men happy, or to keep them so."   (So take it in the very words of Creech)    Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago;     And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach      From his translation; but had none admired,       Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brownout occurs when you forget what happened until you start hearing about it and then your memory slowly comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brownout occurs when you forget what happened until you start hearing about it and then your memory slowly comes back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the Civil War, cotton ... and also the history and significance of this National Historic Landmark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55656]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46683]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete exasperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts touch them but lightly--pour   A thousand melodies unheard before!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18370</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[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they can say we have helped, write us grateful letters, even stand steady for a time till the juice we have put into them runs out; but, we may have brought them no hunger for God -- because that hunger is no ache in our own heart -- nor brought them anywhere near to the end of self.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn    September 13, 1999  Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up in life. These are words by which the slanderers of the nature, of the body, the impeachers of our flesh, are completely overthrown... We do not wish to cast aside the body, but corruption: not the flesh, but death. The body is one thing, corruption another; the body is one thing, death another... What is foreign to us is not the body but corruptibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria....I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57602]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria....I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals Himself to me, my answer may perhaps provoke your smiles or laughter, and even scandalize you. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand drawing me, leading me, grasping me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54472]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  And as their subjects ought them to obey,   So kings should feare and serve their God againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he first went down, it didn't look good. And he was so close to the bench that he didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33980]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he first went down, it didn't look good. And he was so close to the bench that he didn't have to get up to get off the ice, so I wasn't sure what happened. But I talked to the trainer between periods and he thought it would be good and then I saw Mike after and he was all smiles with the team winning the division. So a crisis averted, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. (Ruth 2:12)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23967]]></link><description><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   Myself--und Gott.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,  The pride of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,  The pride of kingly sway from out my heart.   With mine own tears I wash away my balm,    With mine own hands I give away my crown,     With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,      With mine own breath release all duty's rites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49410]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSA is going to extend its outreach into other modes of transportation. We think this is a very good approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32916]]></link><description><![CDATA[TSA is going to extend its outreach into other modes of transportation. 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. It shows we could be at any of these places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2604</guid></item></channel></rss>