<?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[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46793]]></link><description><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own,with all their diverse moons,bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;comets with their streaming tailsbent by pressure from our sun;the skyscape of our Milky Wayholding in its shimmering discan infinity of suns(or say a thousand billion);knowing there are holes of darknessgulping mass and even light,knowing that this galaxy of oursis one of multitudesin what we call the heavens,it troubles me. It troubles me.-President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest,about the Revolutionary War).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm only a friend. Though I'll be with you, until the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57937]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   Or the royal-hearted rose:    The pansy in purple dress,     The pink with cheek of red,      Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs,       Like a bashful maid her head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31120]]></link><description><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. (2 Samuel 7:27)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555]]></link><description><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at zero. It's a great opportunity for us. We're getting older and it might be our last big tournament for our country. I think he's just going to enjoy the Olympic experience and make the most of the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anchorman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anchorman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10665]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  Facti crimen habet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training. -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the unsolvable problem by inventing Nautilus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very excited, I wasn't nervous. I just got out there and played my game. The guys have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very excited, I wasn't nervous. I just got out there and played my game. The guys have been awesome to me the last three weeks. I got out there and just tried to help the team out. We didn't pull out the win, but it's a good first step. We know where we stand now and are going to go back and work hard to try to get ready for Norway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight,   Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate;    Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is,     And prove that she's not made of green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everything's under control, you're going too slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everything's under control, you're going too slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk as best we can, ... We thought we'd put it on the table, to free up Mr. Polletta to put the path around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run:  So lines that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run:  So lines that from their parallel decline,   More they proceed the more they still disjoin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16177]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men of wit   Will condescend to take a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To suck it up and do what I did means a lot more than when I was 40th on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30251]]></link><description><![CDATA[To suck it up and do what I did means a lot more than when I was 40th on the money list and everybody was telling you how great you are,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item></channel></rss>