<?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[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got it all taken care of in about two hours. We were surprised how quickly it all came together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33947]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got it all taken care of in about two hours. We were surprised how quickly it all came together. There was a lot of interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of men away   Who gaze upon her unaware:    I would not play her larcenous tricks     To have her looks!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43417]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37708]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original pen-and-paper game. We also want to thank the 300,000 players that registered for the Beta. We could not have done this without their support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give them each a different quote about about winning, confidence, motivation, stuff like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give them each a different quote about about winning, confidence, motivation, stuff like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device should be used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device should be used very sparingly. Good government evolves from trust and a willingness to work together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22275]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47818]]></link><description><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, and odors, and bright hues!    In saying all one feels and thinks     In clever daffodils and pinks;      In puns of tulips; and in phrases,       Charming for their truth, of daisies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, et absurdas opiniones.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world. It is also the language of the Bible, of the parables of Christ, which the rationalist of today finds it so difficult to understand, of the Word of God which demands of us not a discussion but a personal decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,  That art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61974]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,  That art the messenger, shalt ride before him   On a horse cut out of an entire diamond.    That shall be made to go with golden wheels,     I know not how yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust,  Die eine will sich von der andern trennen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22199]]></link><description><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55568]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just taking it one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just taking it one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honestly, it is a matter of what the students want. Would students rather have a service on campus with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honestly, it is a matter of what the students want. Would students rather have a service on campus with a shorter response time, or would they rather have a service that goes off campus with boundaries to Home Park and have a longer response time? Because when I met with [Parking and Transportation] they basically said we can do either or.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48393]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31989</guid></item></channel></rss>