<?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[Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought;  Every aster in my hand   Goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought;  Every aster in my hand   Goes home loaded with a thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45517]]></link><description><![CDATA[For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. from Teaching Children to Love, introduction. -Joseph Chilton Pearce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41982]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38791]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10061]]></link><description><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living well is the best revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living well is the best revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28740]]></link><description><![CDATA[France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overthrowing the Deby regime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't waste your youth growing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't waste your youth growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ethics except the stern and strict rule that is laid down here [Rev. 2:15, 16] by St. John. An easy-going Christianity could never have survived; only the most convinced, resolute, almost bigoted adherence to the most uncompromising interepretation of its own principles could have given the Christians the courage and self-reliance that were needed. For them to hesitate or to doubt was to be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38188]]></link><description><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 with the Subaru, we wanted to win division and national championships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of Time; glance, if thou have eyes, from the near moving-cause to the far-distant Mover. The stroke that came transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, was it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck, and sent flying? Oh, could I transport thee direct from the Beginnings to the Endings, how were thy eyesight unsealed, and thy heart set flaming in the Light-sea of celestial wonder! Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45234]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to fall below   Demosthenes or Cicero,    Don't view me with a critic's eye,     But pass my imperfections by.      Large streams from little fountains flow,       Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733</guid></item></channel></rss>