<?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[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in prison and then thrown back on the street and have no training for anything they go right back into the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4408]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough,  I can single handed move the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough,  I can single handed move the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6266]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4378]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9123]]></link><description><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our lamplit race,   And each from each takes heart of grace    And spirit till his turn be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the eggs, the worse the hatch, The more the fish, the worse the catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the eggs, the worse the hatch, The more the fish, the worse the catch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then a bunch of times in college. I'm real familiar with the gym and the baskets have nice shooting rims. I'm glad we're back in Denver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-iscalled the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "DeadZone.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22945]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of punches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't want to come. It would remind him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--   A mystery of mysteries.    So he must often pause, and stoop,     An all the wanton ringlets loop      Behind her dainty ear--emprise       Of slow event and many sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36825]]></link><description><![CDATA[At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to show the breadth of his expertise as an artist, and how he impacted the preservation of Weir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to show the breadth of his expertise as an artist, and how he impacted the preservation of Weir Farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore,   The flying shadow will return no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58319</guid></item></channel></rss>