<?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[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more of a secret plan. You'll know it when you see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more of a secret plan. You'll know it when you see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11385]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36814]]></link><description><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards decline almost to the vanishing point. Today the [various denominations] don't even have enough authority to keep their members out of mob violence, let alone hold them to difficult standards of theological or ethical or moral excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore,   Here's a double health to thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun with light umbertouches vined cucumberThe more he ticklesthe more there are pickles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun with light umbertouches vined cucumberThe more he ticklesthe more there are pickles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't put any pressure on myself. It had been awhile since I started, so I was more calm on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't put any pressure on myself. It had been awhile since I started, so I was more calm on the mound. That way I could stay there longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are bugs everywhere. We share the world with bugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are bugs everywhere. We share the world with bugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,   From strength to strength advancing--only he    His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,     Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be taught even by an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50737]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be taught even by an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want any money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want any money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49654]]></link><description><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!   So, I was afraid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63509]]></link><description><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30855]]></link><description><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd love to [get a chance to] play [Villanova], because I think we can show our toughness. I look forward to the challenge. We worked hard to get here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel frugalitatis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65817]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48840]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643]]></link><description><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. -James Hillman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5557</guid></item></channel></rss>