<?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 past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we are looking for is what is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we are looking for is what is looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evangelical... wants such peace as men can attain to have some kind of relationship to justice. He observes many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evangelical... wants such peace as men can attain to have some kind of relationship to justice. He observes many different kinds of peace prevailing in the world he inhabits. Not all of them are good. For example, there is the peace that death brings, the peace of the tomb. Today it could be called the peace of Auschwitz. Hitler tried to "make peace" with the Jews by seeking their "final solution"; but the evangelical would fight rather than submit to such a peace. There is also the peace of slavery and subjection, the Pax Romana. Dictators are very fond of the Roman peace. Today it could be called the peace of Tibet. The nation of Tibet has been completely stripped of its personality in our generation by Communist China without a single protest being made in front of a single embassy. Again, there is peace that is artificially induced in men. Among individuals it is the peace of the tranquilizer, the peace of withdrawal and schizophrenia, the peace of the brain-washed prisoner. Should large-scale chemical warfare break our, we are told, whole cities could be sprayed and pacified by such drugs. The evangelical is not interested in paying such high prices for the sake of peace. He would rather stay free, and alive, and in his right mind, prepared to fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. It's tough to swallow right now. ... Things aren't always gonna go your way. That's the only way I can really look at it. Some things we can control and some we can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your brain apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, why Utah? Why does that always have to happen to us against them? But we kept our heads high, knowing we had the NCAA Tournament to look forward to. We realize that we're not done and we have a chance to play at least one game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All he needs is a little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All he needs is a little time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1280]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city just came right in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been a soldier, Till the helm hath worn those aged temples bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been a soldier, Till the helm hath worn those aged temples bare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29587]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, you've got to keep trying, ... This is my first time playing the course and even if I don't make the cut, I want to play as good as I can for next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye outworn,   The little ones spend the day--    In sighing and dismay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is all nouns and verbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is all nouns and verbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32737]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20149</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[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot come to honour under Coverlet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56457]]></link><description><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years and sins are always more than owned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years and sins are always more than owned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They build their team around that ballpark and they always have great pitching. Great arms on the mound, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They build their team around that ballpark and they always have great pitching. Great arms on the mound, and they do enough things on offense in terms of execution to score enough runs to win. So, they're not going to give you any games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20184]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20184</guid></item></channel></rss>