<?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[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,   And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need    Of aid from them--she was the Universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  If one thing is clear as soon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  If one thing is clear as soon as the Church becomes serious about its missionary and ministerial calling for the world, it is that two difficult roads in particular have to be trodden: first, the road towards overcoming the scantiness of its knowledge of the world of today, and its ignoring of what really goes on in the world under its surface; secondly, the road towards reforming its spirit, atmosphere, and inherited structure, in so far as they give no room for new vitality... What can and must be said and resaid, with all gratitude for what in many places is already happening, is that a fearless scrutiny and revision of structure is one of the most urgent aspects of a renewal of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and they need to be rotated every 5,000 miles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so it can hurt a little more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, but the next day we both still loved the idea, ... We knew how much work it would be, but the more we thought about it, the more irresistible it seemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nobler the blood the less the pride ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nobler the blood the less the pride]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15700]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   And rest I well know where.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. [It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba,  Che viene e va; e quei la discolora   Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this relationship. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8567]]></link><description><![CDATA[[From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this relationship. We are not concerned with God, but with our own requirements, to which God must adjust Himself. Our arrogance demands that, in addition to everything else, some super-world should also be known and accessible to us. Our conduct calls for some deeper sanction, some approbation and remuneration from another world. Our well-regulated, pleasurable life longs for some hours of devotion, some prolongation into infinity. And so, when we set God upon the throne of the world, we mean by God ourselves. In "believing" on Him, we justify, enjoy, and adore ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their prayers for Daniel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor;  And so in ours, some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51463]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor;  And so in ours, some neighboring nation,   Taking advantage of our misery,    Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,     To beat us down, the which are down already;      And make a conquest of unhappy,       Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when she was young. We would go to the batting cage and I would put it on 110 pitches. I told her as long as you at least foul the ball off there is no way you are going to strike out and that all you have to do is just nick the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on,  And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend  Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,   And the yellow god forever gazes down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10496]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53207]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5092]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic factors that caused the market to go down remain in place, and I think those worries are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic factors that caused the market to go down remain in place, and I think those worries are going to be with us for the next couple of months, ... certainly until we get third-quarter earnings reports, and maybe through the election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the girls reacted well and continued to play hard. They didn't get down on themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42091]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I'm going to sign an agreement with any country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40140]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I'm going to sign an agreement with any country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item></channel></rss>