<?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[I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's shaping up great. We've had great response. It's a beautiful addition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33345]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's shaping up great. We've had great response. It's a beautiful addition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25837]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Driver AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off andbolted to the brink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Driver AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off andbolted to the brink of a deep precipice. While he was in the actof throwing himself over, his owner seized him by the tail,endeavoring to pull him back. When the Ass persisted in hiseffort, the man let him go and said, Conquer, but conquer toyour cost.A willful beast must go his own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the grass at home. There's more in life than golf. I enjoy the game but I don't know if I could do it every day. If I go practice, I practice for an hour. The guys out here practice for six hours. I couldn't do that. I've never had the length, I'm not that strong of a guy. I hit it 250, 260, I hit it very straight and I'm not a bad putter. You have to do this all the time to get the nerves. I don't know if I have the nerves for the next three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45380]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope they will review their position, because if they do not, it will damage the atmosphere of unity we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37420]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope they will review their position, because if they do not, it will damage the atmosphere of unity we have in this critical time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just told us to keep going to class, Yeah. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29188]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just told us to keep going to class, Yeah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64900]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to stay. Luckily, our market had the available supply of homes for sale and lease to absorb the number of people who needed a place to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment to all citizens alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a danger to myself if I get angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a danger to myself if I get angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see them increasing their outlook for the world economy in terms of growth and we see that feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see them increasing their outlook for the world economy in terms of growth and we see that feed into Canada, it may justify another rate hike to 4.50.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breath, and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breath, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get to be thirty-five and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60904]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get to be thirty-five and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40051]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64137]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to put them in some tough spots and capitalize on their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,   Ha, ha, the wooing o't!    Maggie coost her head fu' high,     Looked asklent and unco skeigh,      Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:       Ha, ha! the wooing o't!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57101]]></link><description><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57101</guid></item></channel></rss>