<?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[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public of its lands, I don't think people are going to like that very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/398]]></link><description><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473]]></link><description><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   That maggots of corrupted texts,    That first run all religion down,     And after every swarm its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,   But thou art not forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branford is a team that is trying to build. But we had some highlights. We had Alyssa back, and she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Branford is a team that is trying to build. But we had some highlights. We had Alyssa back, and she had her highest (all around) of the season. And this was just coming back from pneumonia. Heather had a flyaway half and her first 9.0 of the season (on bars). And Emily's vault, it was the second time she's stood it up this season. We decided to rest Kim and go without her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66057]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15986]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration?  Art thou aught else but place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5444]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration?  Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,   Creating awe and fear in other men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945]]></link><description><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14141]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every ill man hath his ill day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every ill man hath his ill day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, you have 100% of your life left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, you have 100% of your life left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8716]]></link><description><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little lazy in the first half. Coming off the weekend we were a little down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32166]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little lazy in the first half. Coming off the weekend we were a little down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative activity could be described as a type of learningprocess where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative activity could be described as a type of learningprocess where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pirates could happen to anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pirates could happen to anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63536]]></link><description><![CDATA[For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good forwallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45787]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22788]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4568</guid></item></channel></rss>