<?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[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy friendly checks forego,   Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live are those who fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live are those who fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55928]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have an excellent, long-standing relationship with Chile and look forward to working with the new president and her team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have an excellent, long-standing relationship with Chile and look forward to working with the new president and her team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fascist sees the mote in his neighbor’s eye, then hits him over the head with the beam in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15324]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fascist sees the mote in his neighbor’s eye, then hits him over the head with the beam in his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4801]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a political bone in my body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37951]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a political bone in my body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All he would do is cover people and not strike anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You live and you learn -- or you don't live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelvin has been working hard for a little over a month. I wish it could be more, but we'll take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelvin has been working hard for a little over a month. I wish it could be more, but we'll take what we got and let it work. I'm not worried about his stamina because he's in great shape, it's only now he'll be able to handle himself on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their speed behold advancing   Modern men and women dancing;    Step and dress alike express     Above, below from heel to toe,      Male and female awkwardness.       Without a hoop, without a ruffle,        One eternal jig and shuffle,         Where's the air and where's the gait?          Where's the feather in the hat?           Where the frizzed toupee? and where            Oh! where's the powder for the hair?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is in a wait-and-see mode. It's waiting for confirmation of an economic recovery, some kind of resolution on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is in a wait-and-see mode. It's waiting for confirmation of an economic recovery, some kind of resolution on Iraq and on what the Federal Reserve is going to do in its meeting this month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9121]]></link><description><![CDATA[No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57540]]></link><description><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a l'eau-rose?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime,   As when some master-hand exulting sweeps    The keys of some great organ, ye give forth     The music of the woodland depths, a hymn      Of gladness and of thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is always under construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is always under construction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The demographics are ideal, obviously, for sponsorship groups. And you're starting to see some of these companies realizing what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The demographics are ideal, obviously, for sponsorship groups. And you're starting to see some of these companies realizing what the market is and getting involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7639</guid></item></channel></rss>