<?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[Patience is the companion of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the companion of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thingwell, you're needed by someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thingwell, you're needed by someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39541]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide some kind of model. Not just for the metropolitan area but for the nation as a whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2932]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal;  But as the slow years darklier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal;  But as the slow years darklier roll,   Grown wiser, the experienced soul    Will own as dearer far than they     The lips which kiss the tears away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,   And soars and shines, another and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make war that we may live in peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61128]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make war that we may live in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011]]></link><description><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We'reespecially responsible for the one's we put there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34635]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our parent race   Was found by old Monboddo.    Their A, B, C, he made them speak,     And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!      Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek       They knew as well's Monboddo!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46696]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40245]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. You have to be really excited and energetic and able to pump people up, ... I'll dance and scream and do cheers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42197]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you should do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from contact with the show. If you are somebody who delights in that ephemeral novelty in language, then you realize that people are so impressed with what the show and that it's affected them so much, that at least mildly in their own language practices, they want to be a part of it, and I think that's interesting to see happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,   Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,    Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows     Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14606]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a lot of confidence coming in, and now let's see what we can do with it. I wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a lot of confidence coming in, and now let's see what we can do with it. I wanted to start off right today, and I did so I'm happy. Now I can move on to my next match, and we'll see what happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's a whole lot of sophomores who have no idea what they're in store for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9538]]></link><description><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item></channel></rss>