<?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[It's a vital community resource. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32447]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a vital community resource.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a natural reaction when you feel people are here outside the law, that they should be stopped or sent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a natural reaction when you feel people are here outside the law, that they should be stopped or sent back. But people need to understand greater forces are at play than a person deciding to cross a border - that in globalization, for example, labor is moving as much as capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27933]]></link><description><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20175]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/123]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But an untimely grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18217]]></link><description><![CDATA[But an untimely grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10332]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47776]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which can never fade;  How hath man parcel'd out thy glorious name, And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made, While mortal love doth all the title gain!  Which siding with invention, they together  Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain (Thy workmanship), and give thee share in neither. Wit fancies beauty, beauty raiseth wit:  The world is theirs; they two play out the game,  Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name Wrought our deliverance from th' infernal pit, Who sings thy praise? only a scarf or glove  Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is one thing and varnish is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is one thing and varnish is another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805]]></link><description><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,   And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers    Do afterwards redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants to keep the player, ... When you have all those things working for you, you can figure out a way to make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without adding any more to what has already been said; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57912]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without adding any more to what has already been said; for it would be foolish to lengthen the preface while cutting short the history itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to make his job any easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31951]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of out of sync at times, but we definitely executed when the game was on the line; all eight players contributed to the win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26410]]></link><description><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is to give light must endure the burning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is to give light must endure the burning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28128]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely an advantage playing all our Sectional games here. It takes time, but eventually you realize it's the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33048]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely an advantage playing all our Sectional games here. It takes time, but eventually you realize it's the same distance to the rim and you start to shoot the ball [well].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty should accompany youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty should accompany youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46661</guid></item></channel></rss>