<?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[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25256]]></link><description><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33823]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally funded study to determine the safety of smoked marijuana in AIDS patients taking protease inhibitors.] At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA has a mandate from Congress that they could only supply marijuana for research to show that it might be dangerous, ... Subsequently NIDA has changed their mechanism so we can look for benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29855]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15008]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29444]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5349]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time's running out right now. If we're going to turn it around, it needs to be real, real quick ? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time's running out right now. If we're going to turn it around, it needs to be real, real quick ? like next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Katie's only a junior, but she really stepped up this year. She always works hard. You know you can count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Katie's only a junior, but she really stepped up this year. She always works hard. You know you can count on her when you're out there on the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You mean in the state? (when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You mean in the state? (when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this season)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26391]]></link><description><![CDATA[More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, plain, and easy, and simple way of salvation! wanting no subtleties of art or science, no borrowed learning, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, plain, and easy, and simple way of salvation! wanting no subtleties of art or science, no borrowed learning, no refinements of reason; but all done by the simple natural motion of every heart that truly longs after God. For no sooner is the finite desire of the creature in motion towards God, but the infinite desire of God is united with it, co-operates with it; and in this united desire of God and the creature is the salvation and life of the soul brought forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20278]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30908]]></link><description><![CDATA[a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which without temptation he could never have known; for in temptation man knows on what he has set his heart. The coming to light of sin is the work of the accuser, who thereby thinks to have won the victory. But it is sin which is become manifest which can be known, and therefore forgiven. Thus the manifestation of sin belongs to the salvation plan of God with man, and Satan must serve this plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are solutions to those problems. We have smart growth here already. There will be benefits to having foot traffic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are solutions to those problems. We have smart growth here already. There will be benefits to having foot traffic for merchants on Main Street, increased tax revenue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent miracle, Lean through the cloud, lift the right hand of power And with a sudden lightning smite the world perfect. Yet this was not God's way, Who had the power,  But set it by, choosing the cross, the thorn,  The sorrowful wounds. Something there is, perhaps, That power destroys in passing, something supreme, To whose great value in the eyes of God That cross, that thorn, and those five wounds bear witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up "Stars and Stripes Forever."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty, if pinned down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, especially against good teams, they will pound away on us. We want to make the other team work hard to pick up our serve. We don't want to make it easy to hit the ball back at us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,   Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,    Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,     You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our thoughts and prayers go out to the woman's family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our thoughts and prayers go out to the woman's family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38202</guid></item></channel></rss>