<?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[Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49083]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to think that will translate to the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came back here today (with the distractions) taking the approach that this is another away game. We're trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came back here today (with the distractions) taking the approach that this is another away game. We're trying to stay with the same routine, and hopefully not get caught up in all that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want to go back to the southeast. We're going to come to California, I don't care how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want to go back to the southeast. We're going to come to California, I don't care how expensive it is, and live here for the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59457]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,   There's a flower about to blow;    There's a midnight blackness changing     Into gray;      Men of thought and men of action,       Clear the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His eyes Were with his heart. and that was far away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48742]]></link><description><![CDATA[His eyes Were with his heart. and that was far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48120]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who suffers before it is necessary,suffers more than isnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who suffers before it is necessary,suffers more than isnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32709]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533]]></link><description><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get closer to the election, the likelihood that Congress is going to be able to pass legislation, particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34650]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get closer to the election, the likelihood that Congress is going to be able to pass legislation, particularly on what might be viewed as partisan or difficult issues, diminishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;  Her eyebrow's shape was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;  Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow,   Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth,    Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow,     As if her veins ran lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support (once they are released) is so helpful its almost the only thing that counts. Sincerity has nothing to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support (once they are released) is so helpful its almost the only thing that counts. Sincerity has nothing to do with whether they will change their lifestyle. It's whether or not they can connect with someone once they get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most exciting match of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42149]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most exciting match of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56759]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who live as models for the mass   Are singly of more value than they all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but an author knows an author's cares, Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3526]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but an author knows an author's cares, Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47098</guid></item></channel></rss>