<?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[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to be careful with sparks. It doesn't take much to burn dead grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37069]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to be careful with sparks. It doesn't take much to burn dead grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without discipline, there's no life at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without discipline, there's no life at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. And Chicago has always been one of my favorite cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19163]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my thoughts of white."   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46201]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</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[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622]]></link><description><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in control at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in control at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in a situation where I am nervous or trying to live up to coach Emmer. I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in a situation where I am nervous or trying to live up to coach Emmer. I hope to honor the tradition by giving everything that I have to my guys and to the recruiting process to bring in the best players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to win all seven; that's my plan. I don't know about all that other stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to win all seven; that's my plan. I don't know about all that other stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neat, not gaudy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neat, not gaudy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493]]></link><description><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15037]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount of money being provided to them has had a psychological impact. That's why organizations looked to variable pay as a way to counteract that -- until recently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very pleased that Governor Perry and his Commissioner of Education firmly believe that more education dollars should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very pleased that Governor Perry and his Commissioner of Education firmly believe that more education dollars should be spent in the classroom, ... It is a travesty that hundreds of thousands of dollars were previously spent on nonacademic expenses such as lobbyists and seminars, rather than in our children's classrooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to play games about who's going to call who, but clearly these guys walked out. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to play games about who's going to call who, but clearly these guys walked out. They have to walk back in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle against economic reality, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31698]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle against economic reality,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3137</guid></item></channel></rss>