<?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[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12317]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63402]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, what, what, What's the news from Sway?  Sad news,   Bad news,    Comes by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44459]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, what, what, What's the news from Sway?  Sad news,   Bad news,    Comes by the cable; led     Through the Indian Ocean's bed,      Through the Persian Gulf, the Red       Sea, and the Med-]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8997]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without tipping the economy into a recession then we can get through this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389</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[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51562]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All complaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098]]></link><description><![CDATA[All complaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied,   Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide,    As if old Drums, worn out with martial din,     Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is an ape with possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is an ape with possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many other people?s lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a game. So the clock is ticking, and it's not going to stop. It's going on nine or 10 days since he's pitched a game. These are all the things you can't make up for. All you can do is, first and foremost, get him healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use.  Oh, the price were high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use.  Oh, the price were high   That those shoes would buy,    Those little blue unused shoes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,   When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12808</guid></item></channel></rss>