<?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[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring   That feels the Master Melody--and snaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a reflection of the trends that are going on not only in Winston-Salem but across the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a reflection of the trends that are going on not only in Winston-Salem but across the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476</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[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30036]]></link><description><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The seeds of Islamic fundamentalism is all over Iraqi walls, ... He said that six months before anybody else in the media.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39272]]></link><description><![CDATA[It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, they still weren't eating them. It seemed like such a waste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone ask me how to become a computer nerds, I said "Start dreaming!"; I'm serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone ask me how to become a computer nerds, I said "Start dreaming!"; I'm serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I kiss you, it tastes like heaven... so sweet, loving, kind, and caring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23848]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I kiss you, it tastes like heaven... so sweet, loving, kind, and caring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63660]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward leaps,   Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.    Parch not your life with dry despair;     The stream of hope flow everywhere--      So under every sky and star,       Just drop your bucket where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35439]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teammates. So my junior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41332]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teammates. So my junior and senior years, I felt it was no longer my team. I lost a lot of good relationships and friendships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of wifely love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon of sombre sky  On Friday, clamour and display Smote Him; no solitude had He. No silence, since Gethsemane. Public was death; but power, but might,  But life again, but victory, Were hushed within the dead of night,  The shuttered dark, the secrecy. And all alone, alone, alone He rose again behind the stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15036]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29693]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region and we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region and we cannot thank or pay the brave rescue workers enough for the lives they've already saved, ... But we cannot ignore how the federal government has failed to protect the health and safety of its citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journey is the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journey is the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4050</guid></item></channel></rss>