<?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[How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51739]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of the streets of life   They of a sudden greet us with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4631]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30132]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just got to show that again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year it's a little easier, they make less mistakes in practice. I don't have to do so much repetition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year it's a little easier, they make less mistakes in practice. I don't have to do so much repetition, because they know what to do and what to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But above all things truth is victor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59799]]></link><description><![CDATA[But above all things truth is victor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin group), are trumpeting an agenda that they want the certain rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8968]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46056]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He probably has some of the best putting strokes I have ever seen. He just really seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He probably has some of the best putting strokes I have ever seen. He just really seems to be able to handle every adverse situation well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields  Of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields  Of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25471]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's now a phasing issue. They're doing the parking lot and once they get that out of the way, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's now a phasing issue. They're doing the parking lot and once they get that out of the way, they will start the foundation and the footing for the new hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be easier and more convenient for students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the two games Liverpool fully deserved to go through, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the two games Liverpool fully deserved to go through,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40195</guid></item></channel></rss>