<?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[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not yet final, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not yet final,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And bid them speak for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61739]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe,   Man, take thine old cloake about thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the road, the lonely road, Under the cold, white moon;  Under the rugged trees he strode,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43075]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the road, the lonely road, Under the cold, white moon;  Under the rugged trees he strode,   Whistled and shifted his heavy load--    Whistled a foolish tune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just a little bit behind me, but I still should have made a play on it. I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just a little bit behind me, but I still should have made a play on it. I was thinking touchdown, but it was kind of dying on me so I was trying to slow down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64264]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23089]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring Training. He was gearing up for Opening Day. Our hope, and I think everyone's hope, would be it he could have through Spring Training, and then a determination be made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more;  And as I turn me home,   My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14247]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more;  And as I turn me home,   My shadow walks before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35612]]></link><description><![CDATA[They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â from Sweden and England and all kinds of places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   The post of honor shall be mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017]]></link><description><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694</guid></item></channel></rss>