<?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[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58509]]></link><description><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying.    [Lat., Lauriger Horatius     Quam dixisti verum;      Fugit curo citius       Tempus edax rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32874</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[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit in the second game, but we couldn't keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the bulk of the liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2283]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big time. That's all I can say about our seniors. They've been leading us all year and it showed tonight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big time. That's all I can say about our seniors. They've been leading us all year and it showed tonight as both of them stepped up big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24030]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enoughother people get what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enoughother people get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were really on top of our assignments. We just shared the ball well, and when we do what our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34527]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were really on top of our assignments. We just shared the ball well, and when we do what our coach tells us to do, we find easy baskets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598]]></link><description><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught  The dialect they speak, where melodies   Alone are the interpreters of thought?    Whose household words are songs in many keys,     Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know necessarily if we're calling it a rebuilding season. Our expectations are always the same. I think a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know necessarily if we're calling it a rebuilding season. Our expectations are always the same. I think a lot of people may have counted us out, but we'll gladly take that role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47389]]></link><description><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through the forest, or the gush   That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--    'Tis all the music of the wind, and we     Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of marriage is memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of marriage is memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're noteven in the right jungle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're noteven in the right jungle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from purest snow   And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65515</guid></item></channel></rss>