<?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[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are out there struggling to be heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get inspired by what happened last Sunday in Hartford, then there's something wrong with you, ... That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get inspired by what happened last Sunday in Hartford, then there's something wrong with you, ... That fired me up to want to play well, starting today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11452]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building will provide a state of the art performance hall and a rehearsal space for musical performance and instruction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building will provide a state of the art performance hall and a rehearsal space for musical performance and instruction for large orchestral ensembles and choral groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49092]]></link><description><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37528]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16419]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8229]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7021]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forecasts are optimistic. The river will probably remain stable for another two days and then start to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forecasts are optimistic. The river will probably remain stable for another two days and then start to fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64352]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32197]]></link><description><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration on either end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18940]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half todeath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half todeath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48469</guid></item></channel></rss>