<?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[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3235]]></link><description><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gained rhythm and confidence with every turnover. Every game in which we lost the turnover battle, we lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32361]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gained rhythm and confidence with every turnover. Every game in which we lost the turnover battle, we lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1276]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16519]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at least another four days when we evacuated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen Danny much better, but he's such a dominating diver. Even when he's off, he's still the best around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34217]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen Danny much better, but he's such a dominating diver. Even when he's off, he's still the best around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the order of Paul's writing [in Romans], even so do thou. First behold thyself diligently in the law of God, and see there thy just damnation. Secondarily, turn thine eyes to Christ, and see there the exceeding mercy of thy most kind and loving Father. Thirdly, remember that Christ made not this atonement that thou shouldest anger God again; neither cleansed he thee, that thou shouldest return (as a swine) unto thine old puddle again: but that thou shouldest be a new creature and live a new life after the will of God and not of the flesh. And be diligent lest through thine own negligence and unthankfulness thou lose this favor and mercy again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake up America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake up America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46947]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye outworn,   The little ones spend the day--    In sighing and dismay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's anything new. It's that the mood in the bond market is horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's anything new. It's that the mood in the bond market is horrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't accept just taking the series. We want to come out tomorrow and get the sweep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't accept just taking the series. We want to come out tomorrow and get the sweep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45653]]></link><description><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7649]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant: It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons. "This people which knoweth not the law are accursed", was the common doctrine of Jews and Greeks. The philosophers addressed themselves only to the well-to-do, the intellectual, and the pure. To the mysteries were invited only those who had clean hands and sound understanding. It was a constant marvel to the heathen that the Christians called the sick and the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item></channel></rss>