<?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[Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39017]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and watch us play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,   Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music and moonlight and feeling    Are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37277]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a mix of technology, resources and a temporary-worker program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody will lose including Poland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time when I was growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men born only to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men born only to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain optimistic that between now and the date of the scheduled vote we will be able to move ahead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain optimistic that between now and the date of the scheduled vote we will be able to move ahead and address these community concerns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so do I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt Away from my embraces:  And fallen into the dusty crypt   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51720]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt Away from my embraces:  And fallen into the dusty crypt   Of darken'd forms and faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30356]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in the two portables over there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12673]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His behavior changed. He really wasn't the same when he was traded to Colorado (by the A's in 2001). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35420]]></link><description><![CDATA[His behavior changed. He really wasn't the same when he was traded to Colorado (by the A's in 2001).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26651</guid></item></channel></rss>