<?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[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.   - George Bancroft,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking this storm very seriously. We are urging Miami-Dade County residents to do the same as we learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking this storm very seriously. We are urging Miami-Dade County residents to do the same as we learned from hurricane Katrina storms are unpredictable,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's the humour of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's the humour of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue,   Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27383]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar,   In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14046]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707]]></link><description><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt  The witching of the soft blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt  The witching of the soft blue sky!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12650]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They earned the respect of North American players. They played gritty. They were winners. They made people around them better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They earned the respect of North American players. They played gritty. They were winners. They made people around them better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105]]></link><description><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:    He watches from his mountain walls,     And like a thunderbolt he falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load his shit into a truck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13902]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,  Goddam! j'aime les anglais.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52510]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully perform your duty, we, the people, may put you in the Presidential chair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33662]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43380</guid></item></channel></rss>