<?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[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50633]]></link><description><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had a few brief moments in there where we did play good or looked all right, but, for the most part, we looked like a pee-wee team out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,   Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks  You teach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks  You teach me how a beggar should be answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most respected women are the most oppressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most respected women are the most oppressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wide open, ... The obesity market is unique in that it is probably the largest market in the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wide open, ... The obesity market is unique in that it is probably the largest market in the world. However, nothing really works well in terms of safety and tolerability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiders are relatively high in protein, but they tickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiders are relatively high in protein, but they tickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20198]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12029]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees,   Yet to be come at by the breeze:    He did not cease; but cooed--and cooed:     And somewhat pensively he wooed:      He sang of love, with quiet blending,       Slow to begin, and never ending;        Of serious faith, and inward glee;         That was the song,--the song for me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are a very scary team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36195]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are a very scary team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the neon, repaint the marquee ... and we'll also have the front of the building lit up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is not always believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is not always believing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light cameto me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21153]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light cameto me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders freely from the truth of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item></channel></rss>