<?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[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47240]]></link><description><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,   No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, especially against good teams, they will pound away on us. We want to make the other team work hard to pick up our serve. We don't want to make it easy to hit the ball back at us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A niche in the temple of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A niche in the temple of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644]]></link><description><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22028]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both scoring goals. They can be a pretty powerful one-two punch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been working with Dean Gail and the Office of the Dean of Students to make sure that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working with Dean Gail and the Office of the Dean of Students to make sure that the needs of our visitors are met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47462]]></link><description><![CDATA[By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27423]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair,  His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head,   His eyes on his dusty table, with different documents spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a fire? A woman.   What lighter than a woman? Nothing.    [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma     Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20331]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at zero. It's a great opportunity for us. We're getting older and it might be our last big tournament for our country. I think he's just going to enjoy the Olympic experience and make the most of the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of the Christian salvation,... the Church itself will not be much enriched by an accession of panic-stricken fugitives from a Personal God. And many unhappy young people are discovering now that Church membership is not the equivalent of being reconciled to God, and a kind of Confirmation is not a substitute for Conversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen   Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam    To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds;     But never till to-night, never till now,      Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29542]]></link><description><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played solid defense and we picked up our offense, especially at the line with a 12 of 17 effort. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played solid defense and we picked up our offense, especially at the line with a 12 of 17 effort. Our guys came back well, but we need to keep working and improving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112]]></link><description><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61799]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. •Greg Anderson   A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. •Jean De La Bruyère   Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. •Robert Dato  A wish is a desire without an attempt. •Farmer Digest  Oh, the secret life of man and woman -- dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. •Zelda Fitzgerald  Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. •Jean Toomer  Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. •Anonymous  Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. •St. Augustine   When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. •Elizabeth Bowen   Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. •Goethe   Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25053]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We were a pretty handful until we got in point guard trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12731</guid></item></channel></rss>