<?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 had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. Theydon't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. Theydon't overcome inertia. They don't begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16333]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that theysatisfy you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -Measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56111]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged   From the spongy south to this part of the west,    There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,     Unless my sins abuse my divination,      Success to th' Roman host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63388]]></link><description><![CDATA[To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to get drunk, meet attractive girls, and get laid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35347]]></link><description><![CDATA[to get drunk, meet attractive girls, and get laid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox   His torch of purple fire:    . . . .     And when the punctual May arrives,      With cowslip-garland on her brow,       We know what once she gave our lives,        And cannot give us now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blynde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blynde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work is to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work is to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur redit ad Nihilum res ulla, sed omnes  Discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started very well but I got unlucky while he scored on almost every ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started very well but I got unlucky while he scored on almost every ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689</guid></item></channel></rss>