<?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 that endures is not overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove  As heedless and idle as clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove  As heedless and idle as clouds that rove   And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get some momentum going in this last game against Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get some momentum going in this last game against Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4515]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke is a very serious thing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23299]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke is a very serious thing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said 'no.' I would vote 'no,' ... I am reminded of Rogers firefighters who were stuck in a hotel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said 'no.' I would vote 'no,' ... I am reminded of Rogers firefighters who were stuck in a hotel room a few weeks ago. Our taxpayer dollars are to take care of our taxpayers here in Benton County ... I work for Habitat for Humanity, so I do not have a cold heart. I am just trying to be conscientious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try and fail, but don't fail to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try and fail, but don't fail to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is still a very new area will that continue to grow. At some point, we won't differentiate between these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33422]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is still a very new area will that continue to grow. At some point, we won't differentiate between these drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25149]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system can be considered respectable without one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5345]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves with burnt ash to remind us of our sinfulness, forgiveness and mortality. It sets the tone for the penitential season leading up to Easter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arkansas taxpayers, firemen, nurses, teachers, police officers, and other public servants are the ones who are really going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arkansas taxpayers, firemen, nurses, teachers, police officers, and other public servants are the ones who are really going to be paying the price of this tax - not the oil companies. State employees will see the value of their funds reduced and taxpayers will be left to make up the losses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5832]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to perseverance lies by doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32889]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers and as part of the essential functions of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They never stopped working ... I think this says a lot about their ability to persevere. It says a lot about their toughness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It got so bad. I had to break down and tell him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30503]]></link><description><![CDATA[It got so bad. I had to break down and tell him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40817</guid></item></channel></rss>