<?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 passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just moved a few months ago, so I wasn't thinking he'd propose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a form of racism to say that those who criticizethe violence and theft of the Sharon regime are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a form of racism to say that those who criticizethe violence and theft of the Sharon regime are antiSemitic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18340]]></link><description><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33006]]></link><description><![CDATA[This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in a position to help satisfy that demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire  Que ce petit nez retrousse   Changerait les lois d'un empire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37189]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/802]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From his silence a man's consent is inferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50548]]></link><description><![CDATA[From his silence a man's consent is inferred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. William R. Bradford -Anwar El-Sadat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to our algorithms, find some order in this. We're creating these from scratch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865]]></link><description><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5342]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we are certain of sorrow in store   Why do we always arrange for more?    Brothers and sisters I bid you beware     Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is too late, they have a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned to shy away from speculation and just go out on the field and do what I can do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned to shy away from speculation and just go out on the field and do what I can do. The rest is out of my control. You'll drive yourself crazy speculating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's an incredible optimist. Every time there was a problem, she had a positive read. She never gave up. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33201]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's an incredible optimist. Every time there was a problem, she had a positive read. She never gave up. She was always encouraging and always finding solutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like Bush because I don't think he understands poverty or the problems of developing countries. Poor countries want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like Bush because I don't think he understands poverty or the problems of developing countries. Poor countries want to have political independence, too -- the freedom to make decisions for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light,   And wish that thou wert by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66744]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But my big thing was always the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41181]]></link><description><![CDATA[But my big thing was always the blues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46474</guid></item></channel></rss>