<?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[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great runs with my friends. It was great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46428]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I was painting in Dixon, I was out of the place . . . and I made some money selling paintings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. [Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. [Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13135]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,   But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!    Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--     All mock him outright, by day:      But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,       The boldest will shrink away!        O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,         Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zebra fish is ideal because you can freeze the entire fish. Normal freezing is not conducted because it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zebra fish is ideal because you can freeze the entire fish. Normal freezing is not conducted because it would be too slow and cause ice crystals to form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have confidence and belief we can play Chattanooga. But that's not helping us right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41224]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have confidence and belief we can play Chattanooga. But that's not helping us right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651]]></link><description><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the same amount of food as they did when they were young. They need to know that their basal metabolic rate decreases with age. Gaining weight means not only increasing the amount of subcutaneous fat in the body, but visceral as well, and this is the major factor in lifestyle-related diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,   Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49000]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, when I came to training camp, I turned the page. You worry about the guys who are here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, when I came to training camp, I turned the page. You worry about the guys who are here, not the guys that aren't here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29830]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44598</guid></item></channel></rss>