<?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[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721]]></link><description><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi  Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se   Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limits and boundaries (of the party) should not be crossed. However, the unrest within the party will not affect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limits and boundaries (of the party) should not be crossed. However, the unrest within the party will not affect the development of the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit  Sinuque fovet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23758]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit  Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26362]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a bit more sedate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident could have happened twice ? that lightning strikes twice. I believe it does. I think this is one [case] where there was reasonable doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58132]]></link><description><![CDATA[These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lately coach has been telling me to be more aggressive and want the ball more. He tells me that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lately coach has been telling me to be more aggressive and want the ball more. He tells me that he can't just tell the guys that. I have to do it with my body language. I was trying to be active today and keep moving, looking for the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better your room than your company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better your room than your company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62539]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in your imagination can you revise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in your imagination can you revise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2803]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510</guid></item></channel></rss>