<?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[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The front row of people is 50 feet away, which throws you off. But the crowd reaction was pretty amazing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The front row of people is 50 feet away, which throws you off. But the crowd reaction was pretty amazing, from what I could see. Rocking that many people, that's something I'd like to get used to doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world tojustify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reallyattractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did enough solid things to win the game. There were stretches where we were pretty good defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did enough solid things to win the game. There were stretches where we were pretty good defensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332]]></link><description><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus  Tam cari capitis?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It helps to have someone in the same boat as you, ... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It helps to have someone in the same boat as you, ... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed. Plus it's easier because I don't have to worry about her motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.  Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears.   Who then to frail mortality shall trust,    But limns the water, or but writes in dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should have been here half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[While her actor dad, John Aniston, was in Los Angeles taping his soap opera, Days of Our Lives, Aniston was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38608]]></link><description><![CDATA[[While her actor dad, John Aniston, was in Los Angeles taping his soap opera, Days of Our Lives, Aniston was living in New York with her mom, a sometime actress-model, and attending the performing arts high school made famous by Fame. Dad did his best to dissuade her from going into show business.] Why trust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there, ... you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay,   Time conquers all, and we must time obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud  Without our special wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud  Without our special wonder?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that earth which kept the world in awe   Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're quite pleased to have Rick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're quite pleased to have Rick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27295]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only where human existence is understood as personal, and that means where the existence of man is understood to be in responsibility to the Divine Thou. This is the depth of human distress, that we are separated from God, that our communion with Him is destroyed, that man has emancipated himself (has taken himself out of the hand of God) and has become independent, his own master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't come up and tackle, ... They flat out ran over us and they looked good tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't come up and tackle, ... They flat out ran over us and they looked good tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,   Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29900]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25856]]></link><description><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die,  Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die,  Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item></channel></rss>