<?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[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44811]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26301]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24728]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told the coaches there that I don't think I've ever been involved in all my years of coaching in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told the coaches there that I don't think I've ever been involved in all my years of coaching in a blowout that big in either boys or girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. Those games certainly helped me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies;   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors    Close after us, forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41759]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1259]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our support was great this season. And we hope it continues next year when we raise our championship banner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our support was great this season. And we hope it continues next year when we raise our championship banner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the tractor exposed to the cold, heat and rain. These tractors were before air conditioning, heat and stereos. This also gives the older people an opportunity to relive memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38868]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasons of the poore weigh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasons of the poore weigh not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove  As heedless and idle as clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove  As heedless and idle as clouds that rove   And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59217]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a good contrast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30681]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a good contrast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of those things that's good to see him running around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39813]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of those things that's good to see him running around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just wanted to get the win for the four seniors ... We wanted them to go out with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just wanted to get the win for the four seniors ... We wanted them to go out with a big bang and for us to have momentum going into the Big Ten tournament. But I think our team is still there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52210]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who this really hurts is entry-level workers because it makes it harder for them to find work. Instead of hiring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who this really hurts is entry-level workers because it makes it harder for them to find work. Instead of hiring five people (business owners) hire three people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie  A little nearer Spenser, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie  A little nearer Spenser, to make room   For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few trees down on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girl is the smallest portion of herself. [The girl is all crinoline and chignon.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girl is the smallest portion of herself. [The girl is all crinoline and chignon.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44453]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27069]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since the days of the old regime.    And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,     I'd give--though it might seem bold--      A hundred years of the Golden Age       For a year of the Age of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48826</guid></item></channel></rss>