<?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[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to just play with Rod. He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to just play with Rod. He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51015]]></link><description><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9839]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The special forces are also doing a big job ... so we will be talking about different aspects of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The special forces are also doing a big job ... so we will be talking about different aspects of the relationship during my visit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We compliment ourselves on being a pressure team. There is no magic to it. Our players just understand how important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34081]]></link><description><![CDATA[We compliment ourselves on being a pressure team. There is no magic to it. Our players just understand how important special teams can be in every game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just an all-out blitz. We're bringing everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just an all-out blitz. We're bringing everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5399]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. Thisis simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what hepretends to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind  Their doctrines here are sure to seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54907]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind  Their doctrines here are sure to seek,   And just as sure to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was our do-everything player. She was our best defender. She guarded the best players on the teams we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was our do-everything player. She was our best defender. She guarded the best players on the teams we played . . . and she did an outstanding job. She was our on-the-court leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44250]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41521]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain,  He that is beaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19712]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain,  He that is beaten may be said   To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can only say this situation presented me with an opportunity to move forward. My wife and I were pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can only say this situation presented me with an opportunity to move forward. My wife and I were pleased to use this time to move into a new life for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Glen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55874]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Glen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Thus, while the tangible has advantages, It is the intangible that makes it useful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.   Have I not tarried?    Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.     Still have I tarried.      Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the      kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and      the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance      to burn your lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57430</guid></item></channel></rss>