<?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[When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13630]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4801]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35490]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 games, there's 6,000 people waiting to meet you at the airport when you go home. But with us, with our tradition, people say, 'What happened?' We're just a team that came close . . . a team that almost had a chance to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15464]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12676]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31058]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's got an opportunity and he's taking advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11770]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My favourite thing is to go where I've never been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59601]]></link><description><![CDATA[My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50369]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51172]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. By God, Harry was in the line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. By God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65475]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy?  I hits them a rap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy?  I hits them a rap with my crook,   For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got quite a few ideas. We still have a Land Rover in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got quite a few ideas. We still have a Land Rover in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1710]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair,  With gold in her garment glittering,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18589]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair,  With gold in her garment glittering,   And she combs her golden hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2564</guid></item></channel></rss>