<?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[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Byron is a great person to work with and I look forward to coaching him this season. On the field, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Byron is a great person to work with and I look forward to coaching him this season. On the field, he provides a very serious scoring threat every time he touches the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast;  And the woods against a stormy sky,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast;  And the woods against a stormy sky,   Their giant branches toss'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bergundy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bergundy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60975]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50816]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57540]]></link><description><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53544]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So tedious is this day As is the night before some festival  To an impatient child that hath new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2760]]></link><description><![CDATA[So tedious is this day As is the night before some festival  To an impatient child that hath new robes   And may not wear them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a favorite place to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39910]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a favorite place to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash of color beneath the sky:    Hats off!     The flag is passing by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's Democratic Party, which is a coalition partner in the state with Congress, has been issuing such statements and Gandhi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34852]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's Democratic Party, which is a coalition partner in the state with Congress, has been issuing such statements and Gandhi must take strong notice of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886</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[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/733]]></link><description><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322]]></link><description><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45356]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's here! He's there! he's everywhere!   An me! he's nowhere!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,  And, departing, leave us behind  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,  And, departing, leave us behind   Footprints on the sands of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand the community isn't satisfied at all that it's here. There were a lot of strong words at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand the community isn't satisfied at all that it's here. There were a lot of strong words at the town meeting. But I don't feel like that. I feel really bad for the victims and their families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, / Without a city wall, / Where the dear Lord was crucified,/ Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, / Without a city wall, / Where the dear Lord was crucified,/ Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31241</guid></item></channel></rss>