<?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[Someday will never come and take you by the hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday will never come and take you by the hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16698]]></link><description><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60109]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5936]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3974]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8807]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13203]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the Northern California and Oregon coast. That was our (goal). My wife has always been kind of a lighthouse nut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fat's all in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fat's all in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is a relief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is a relief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2456]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5025]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/506]]></link><description><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where somethingmight be planted, a seed, from the Absolute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where somethingmight be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--   One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light to the mind or peace to the heart... How human is the God of the Old Testament -- the God who appears, speaks, guides, who loves and is loved, even as the Man of the New Testament, Christ Jesus, is divine! This difference between the idea of an absolute and infinite God and the God of Scripture is, after all, that which separates the true believer and Christian from the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028</guid></item></channel></rss>