<?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[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike requited,   Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the star of empire takes its way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the star of empire takes its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to handle that mentally. It's a challenge, but I think he's up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evidence suggests [bank reward programs] do work. It really depends on the individual program and how it is set up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evidence suggests [bank reward programs] do work. It really depends on the individual program and how it is set up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of badtraining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of badtraining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one;   Nothing is fair or good alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and we try to accommodate all of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29134]]></link><description><![CDATA[and we try to accommodate all of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own proportion and standard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own proportion and standard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:  Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27937]]></link><description><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20046]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and swung    In the palpitating air,     Drowsed with odors strange and rare.      And, with whispered laughter, slipped away       And let him hanging there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Control your emotion or it will control you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Control your emotion or it will control you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I moved here I had a two bedroom, simple, 900 square feet, and rent was eight to nine hundred. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I moved here I had a two bedroom, simple, 900 square feet, and rent was eight to nine hundred. For that same size unit it's now $1,500 per month. You take a $10-an-hour worker, pretty much all of their wages for the year would only cover rent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both the teacher and the taught are young,   As was the case, at least, where I have been;    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong     They smile still more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4369]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays   And into words his longing gushes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4559]]></link><description><![CDATA[For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53636]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm elated. We needed everything (that we won at state). We had our best tournament we had all year ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm elated. We needed everything (that we won at state). We had our best tournament we had all year ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ It was pretty powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nodding the head does not row the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nodding the head does not row the boat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did actually think about that quite long and hard, I must admit, when you've been No.1 for 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did actually think about that quite long and hard, I must admit, when you've been No.1 for 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35428</guid></item></channel></rss>