<?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[Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, buthe who has mastered himself is mightier still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21030]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16877]]></link><description><![CDATA[For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61610]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society where none intrudes   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, after a slow start, it grew to become a $US2.3 billion ($3 billion today) blockbuster for its owner, Pfizer, in 2003.] About 80 per cent of the prescriptions were for unapproved uses - conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines and tension headaches, ... In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type - yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14810]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29395]]></link><description><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most communities are under the false impression that if a sex offender moves into the neighborhood, law enforcement would knock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most communities are under the false impression that if a sex offender moves into the neighborhood, law enforcement would knock on their door, but that's just not the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17616]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32481]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one hit. You don't see a lot of teams stringing six and seven hits together to score runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used--but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All real education is the architecture of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13501]]></link><description><![CDATA[All real education is the architecture of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13514]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's crime rates, the political situation and public life allow us to hold the elections because a civil society has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's crime rates, the political situation and public life allow us to hold the elections because a civil society has been built in the Chechen republic,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact of the bee   Upon the blossom; in the tree    I am the sap--that shall reveal     The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes      Up from the darkness through its roots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66730]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm,  Content to wither, pale and brief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm,  Content to wither, pale and brief,   The trophy of thy paler form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is woman there is magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is woman there is magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26195</guid></item></channel></rss>