<?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[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;  Solid men of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;  Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown;   Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24272]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran his plays this week, calling them by numbers, to make it easy for our defense. What I couldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran his plays this week, calling them by numbers, to make it easy for our defense. What I couldn't duplicate was the speed he's got over there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37109]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think onecustomer at a time and take care of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think onecustomer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57327]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18613]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to because people just didn't have time to sit with them for hours on end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball around and run our motion like we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17224]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;   Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;    I'll wind thee up no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wish them well, ... except this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39818]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wish them well, ... except this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is just as important a condition of life as truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is just as important a condition of life as truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28845]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a tough team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a tough team,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25481]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6208]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4427</guid></item></channel></rss>