<?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[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34218]]></link><description><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My wife and I wanted to have more time to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe. By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment. By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress, which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match and a whole new opponent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52778]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557]]></link><description><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth like a blanketthat always leavesyour feet coldscreenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth like a blanketthat always leavesyour feet coldscreenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for today for tomorrow never comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for today for tomorrow never comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65335]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye on the needy world of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2781]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;   I will go down to the chapel and pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47162]]></link><description><![CDATA[When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/645]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They're here to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29016]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They're here to hone their artistry and make the transition from the classroom to the stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should stay at the same level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is.Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is.Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that couldsupport life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100million planets that harbored life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power,   Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up    To want the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25487]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60128]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38290]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into a case like this as a defendant six feet under, and you have to continually claw your way out of that hole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</guid></item></channel></rss>