<?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[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams. Some were mountainous; some lay in long, monotonous rows like, the basalt precipices hanging over desert canons. Such was the background of the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city. But into this background were cut myriads of brilliant parallelograms and circles and squares through which glowed many colored lights. And out of the violet and purple depths ascended like the city's soul, sound and odors and thrills that make up the civic body. There arose the breath of gaiety unrestrained, of love, of hate, of all the passions that man can know. There below him lay all things, good or bad, that can be brought from the four corners of the earth to instruct, please, thrill, enrich, elevate, cast down, nurture or kill. Thus the flavor of it came up to him and went into his blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His creativity is incredible. He's one of the best college players I've ever seen. He's a complete player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33944]]></link><description><![CDATA[His creativity is incredible. He's one of the best college players I've ever seen. He's a complete player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This whole thing has gone beyond the likely scenario. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30046]]></link><description><![CDATA[This whole thing has gone beyond the likely scenario.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match and a whole new opponent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36304]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), we see a different side. There is a duality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9197]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to keep learning as I go, here. The last week has really made me stronger and I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to keep learning as I go, here. The last week has really made me stronger and I've learned from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25657]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always held students accountable to all state requirements. We believed this would be a consistent message to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always held students accountable to all state requirements. We believed this would be a consistent message to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a confident guy, but I think that everybody on this team is confident. If we don't make predictions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34531]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a confident guy, but I think that everybody on this team is confident. If we don't make predictions like him, it doesn't mean we don't have confidence. Everybody's different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a poet out of a man.   The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--    For the reed that grows never more again     As a reed with the reeds of the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for the leaves when laid   In their noonday dreams.    From my wings are shaken the dews that waken     The sweet buds every one,      When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,       As she dances about the sun.        I wield the flail of the lashing hail,         And whiten the green plains under,          And then again I dissolve it in rain,           And laugh as I pass in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25962]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. Higginson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29464]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1932</guid></item></channel></rss>