<?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[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61941]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd like to make a decision today but may wait until tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh no, no, no, I dare not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's definitely a threat with his legs. He can move pretty well and I believe that he's a big guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38187]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's definitely a threat with his legs. He can move pretty well and I believe that he's a big guy (6-foot-4, 222 pounds), so we'll have to get after him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40347]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That remains an open question. Some people might argue that it cannibalizes new book sales. Some argue that it spurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37564]]></link><description><![CDATA[That remains an open question. Some people might argue that it cannibalizes new book sales. Some argue that it spurs new book sales by making more books available and by bringing them to new locations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52339]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have a lot of useful information, but if they rely on Microsoft, there may be some reluctance to come forward. Hopefully, this will show the government is serious and those companies will go forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright,  Of that rare happiness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright,  Of that rare happiness, which even on earth   Heaven gives to those it loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any student coming to IU will meet students like themselves, ... (Students) also will meet people totally and completely different, literally from all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,   Like the strong sunrise, broke away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to that song, and learn it! Half my kingdom would I give,  As I live,   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to that song, and learn it! Half my kingdom would I give,  As I live,   If by such songs you would earn it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February is a dry month anyway. It's typically the driest month. And this February was drier than most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30683]]></link><description><![CDATA[February is a dry month anyway. It's typically the driest month. And this February was drier than most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is lined with love! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is lined with love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been dying to work with Simon since I saw Shaun of the Dead, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been dying to work with Simon since I saw Shaun of the Dead,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12434]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robust demand for cruise vacations continued into our seasonally strong summer period. Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robust demand for cruise vacations continued into our seasonally strong summer period. Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs, resulting in higher profits and another record third quarter,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42713</guid></item></channel></rss>