<?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[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40418]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of darkness grows?    Who, through what funereal pain,     Souls to love and peace attain?   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't always about adding resources, it's about ensuring your resources are appropriately allocated. It really elevates the focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31214]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't always about adding resources, it's about ensuring your resources are appropriately allocated. It really elevates the focus on professional development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53615]]></link><description><![CDATA[A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62243]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this: ... They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40692]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to seek the great Perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to seek the great Perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that we don't want to comply, but the sheriffs are saying they don't have the resources or ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that we don't want to comply, but the sheriffs are saying they don't have the resources or ability to do it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64545]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49408]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your laugh is of the sardonic kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34117</guid></item></channel></rss>