<?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[Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man,   He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never become a howling success by just howling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21813]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never become a howling success by just howling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/933]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fever is an expression of inner rage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57383]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fever is an expression of inner rage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. I went out fast, but it was hard to maintain it by myself. So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. I went out fast, but it was hard to maintain it by myself. So I just ran to win today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that itchanges you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that itchanges you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My occupation is solely that of a painter.No one can argue with pictures(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62387]]></link><description><![CDATA[My occupation is solely that of a painter.No one can argue with pictures(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all animation and big sound systems and stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst and deserved it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best,   And turn'd some very serious things to jest.    Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers,     Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers;      "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute!       Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote.        We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes         Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens,          When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die,"           And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Projective geometry is all geometry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Projective geometry is all geometry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware of the fact that their competence in science does not give them a clue to the problem of how their science should be used in the service of man. The sensitive visitor to the mesas of Los Alamos is almost sure to meditate on the experience of that gifted man, Klaus Fuchs. Though his work in the laboratories was outstanding, his decision concerning the use of what he knew was disastrous. What if, in addition to his scientific competence, the younger Fuchs had shared something of the Christian conviction of his father, Emil Fuchs? Much of the subsequent history of our earth might then have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43185]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the next step for someone like me who has come from small boats to try to make it into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the next step for someone like me who has come from small boats to try to make it into the America's Cup. It's the pinnacle of big boat sailing really.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34082]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23963]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4872]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to get everything working (in the beginning of the year). But I think we'll figure it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to get everything working (in the beginning of the year). But I think we'll figure it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13050]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service done   By willing and discerning souls was glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33668</guid></item></channel></rss>