<?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[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,   As keen-eyed, cold and fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51040]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.   The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52300]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with good leadership by Prime Minister Allawi and his ministers, that the elections will be able to be held,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15574]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ItÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41434]]></link><description><![CDATA[ItÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night...What of fame?Everyone knows your face, the world screams your nameAnd never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night...What of fame?Everyone knows your face, the world screams your nameAnd never again, are you alone..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40173]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do something really bad the first time, and no one will ever think of asking you again ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do something really bad the first time, and no one will ever think of asking you again]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[While her actor dad, John Aniston, was in Los Angeles taping his soap opera, Days of Our Lives, Aniston was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38608]]></link><description><![CDATA[[While her actor dad, John Aniston, was in Los Angeles taping his soap opera, Days of Our Lives, Aniston was living in New York with her mom, a sometime actress-model, and attending the performing arts high school made famous by Fame. Dad did his best to dissuade her from going into show business.] Why trust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there, ... you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8092]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be a little further away [than Phillips was].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,   But love--strong love, that never can decay!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal marks the first of many to come and illustrates how, by working together with producers, we will achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42494]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal marks the first of many to come and illustrates how, by working together with producers, we will achieve agreements that are mutually beneficial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where things have not changed at all, there is the least likelihood of revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where things have not changed at all, there is the least likelihood of revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28546]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has been a net plus for the nation's economy, and the Clinton/Gore Administration's free trade policies have been a big contributor to our nation's economic prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance; that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29405]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741</guid></item></channel></rss>