<?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[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced and there is very narrow room for negotiation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61705]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,   Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59547]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59400]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64470]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun  Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun  Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee   A name which before thee no mortal hath won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3362]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly made up of little words, little deeds, little prayers, little sympathies, adding themselves together in unwearied succession. The Gospel is full of divine attempts to help and heal, in the body, mind and heart, individual men. The completed beauty of Christ's life is only the added beauty of little inconspicuous acts of beauty -- talking with the woman at the well; going far up into the North country to talk with the Syrophenician woman; showing the young ruler the stealthy ambition laid away in his heart, that kept him out of the kingdom of Heaven; shedding a tear at the grave of Lazarus; teaching a little knot of followers how to pray; preaching the Gospel one Sunday afternoon to two disciples going out to Emmaus; kindling a fire and broiling fish, that His disciples might have a breakfast waiting for them when they came ashore after a night of fishing, cold, tired, discouraged. All of these things, you see, let us in so easily into the real quality and tone of God's interests, so specific, so narrowed down, so enlisted in what is small, so engrossed in what is minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4414]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63362]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29515]]></link><description><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,  Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27663]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65583]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/417]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test.  The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth,   In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway.  ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12960]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway. ]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm Chevy Chase and you're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21111]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item></channel></rss>