<?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[As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19946]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really and emotional time for the town, but I grew up with Lloyd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33007]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really and emotional time for the town, but I grew up with Lloyd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23694]]></link><description><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44270]]></link><description><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44270</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[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7631]]></link><description><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book  Wherein who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes,  And steer to Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;   They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,    And flare up bodily, wings and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14750]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4230]]></link><description><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still some room to grow with their product lines. The question is what they'll do to grow the brand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still some room to grow with their product lines. The question is what they'll do to grow the brand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58180]]></link><description><![CDATA[To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36722]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53339]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry;  For she hes weet her petticoats   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry;  For she hes weet her petticoats   In gangin' thro' the rye,    Peer body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John will be a terrific addition to our organization. Over the past 12 years, John has led and managed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37665]]></link><description><![CDATA[John will be a terrific addition to our organization. Over the past 12 years, John has led and managed a successful media and communications investment banking practice in the U.S. and Europe. Our media and communications business will benefit from his vision, leadership, relationships and proven experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Fallacies about Christianity must always be faced as deterrents to right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Fallacies about Christianity must always be faced as deterrents to right living, and not merely as mistakes in the mind, for it is the effect they have on our actions which matters most. So soon as we abstract them from our lives and think of them only as faults in our mental machinery, we tend to embrace the greatest fallacy of all -- which is to think of Christianity as a way of looking at life instead of a way of changing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans round with many voices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14136]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52583]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47977]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And the temples of his gods?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12514]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item></channel></rss>