<?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[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26122]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55514]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn,  A breath may burst his bubble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn,  A breath may burst his bubble shares,   And soft, white hands could hardly earn    A living that would serve his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9120]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the lover's gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the lover's gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a great 20 minutes and (then) we lost our composure. We didn't match their intensity to start the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a great 20 minutes and (then) we lost our composure. We didn't match their intensity to start the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A savior of the silver-coasted isle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45820]]></link><description><![CDATA[A savior of the silver-coasted isle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have called a meeting for the coming days of the most important anti-terrorist services from the European Union who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29319]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have called a meeting for the coming days of the most important anti-terrorist services from the European Union who will meet here in Madrid,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60876]]></link><description><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As yon summits soft and fair,    Clad in colours of the air,     Which to those who journey near,      Barren, brown, and rough appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the youngest team in the NFL. They're not supposed to be doing anything. They are supposed to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the youngest team in the NFL. They're not supposed to be doing anything. They are supposed to be the youngest team, but they didn't look like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is its own defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is its own defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47275]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled by the internet - as well as by cell phones, digital assistants, and the like - but that it's really about customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2768]]></link><description><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease with grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaching helps you develop your leadership skills, clarify your values and guiding principles and build your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaching helps you develop your leadership skills, clarify your values and guiding principles and build your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33339]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings about an energy. My students work together in a better way because of the opera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown for so long. That they are now here is just too good for words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53526]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65367</guid></item></channel></rss>