<?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[There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant;  Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14831]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant;  Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm   To bring us good or to work with harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night;   No lark so blithe as he.    And this the burden of his song,     Forever used to be,--      "I care for nobody, not I,       If no one cares for me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great king, Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great king, Few love to hear the sins they love to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;  Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni   Majus tormentus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16265]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current philosophy. Assumptions like bigger is better; you can't stop progress; no speed is too fast; globalization is good. Then we have to replace them with some different assumptions: small is beautiful; roots and traditions are worth preserving; variety is the spice of life; the only work worth doing is meaningful work; biodiversity is the necessary pre-condition for human survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood;   And those that under Araby's soft sun    Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. She is author of The Color Purple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16216]]></link><description><![CDATA[New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future. -Rob Lebow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They believe in their heart of hearts that their comprehensive plan is going to do more than Hilton's $70 per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They believe in their heart of hearts that their comprehensive plan is going to do more than Hilton's $70 per share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4651</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[He who has a firm will molds the world to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42692]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60420]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's been an interesting time. We've had our ups and downs. I think we've grown a lot, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's been an interesting time. We've had our ups and downs. I think we've grown a lot, and we have made money. It's also fun getting together with women you don't see every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53459]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55263]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders. Zeal should not outrun discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64665]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, use good language and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55588</guid></item></channel></rss>