<?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[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution  Is sicklied o'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution  Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,   And enterprises of great pitch and moment,    With this regard their currents turn awry,     And lose the name of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn\'t intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142]]></link><description><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19529]]></link><description><![CDATA[To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23259]]></link><description><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story, ... It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3581]]></link><description><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going on behind the scenes, but good bums come in all shapes and sizes''.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in a setting of not more than 10 students to one teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent than the current growth of 1.3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25390]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29623]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17684]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380</guid></item></channel></rss>