<?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[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace,  It sings of love that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10809]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace,  It sings of love that will not cease,   For me it never sings in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632]]></link><description><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies.  Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings--   This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16776]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31038]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to the tune of $10,000, $18,000, $11,000 in cash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64774]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr.   I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln   Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner   Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22431]]></link><description><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those first seven 3-point shots were basically the ball game. We had to fight our best just to get back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those first seven 3-point shots were basically the ball game. We had to fight our best just to get back in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings. In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30632]]></link><description><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings. In the end the consumer wins, in terms of choice, product quality and affordability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of wisdom is kindness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of wisdom is kindness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819]]></link><description><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66370]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he higher climbs into spiraling steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33410]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous amount of poise for a ninth-grader. There were some rough spots, but this gives us something to build on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3796]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219</guid></item></channel></rss>