<?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[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2170]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a head that is for rent unfurnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23896]]></link><description><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25538]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Proposeth, God disposeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man Proposeth, God disposeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The graveyards are full of indispensable men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47297]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55831]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick has to be one of the greatest guys there is. If (the Bills) take him, I know they're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick has to be one of the greatest guys there is. If (the Bills) take him, I know they're going to get a real honest, hard-working, and sincere coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater weight than our self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed to be leading to bail him out, You never want to call him dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad actually looked at the wrong list in the paper and we just figured I didn't get it. Then, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad actually looked at the wrong list in the paper and we just figured I didn't get it. Then, 10 minutes later he saw the right list and came and told me. It's an honor. I felt like if I had a good season I might get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for glory misses oft the goal;   Who works for money coins his very soul.    Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be     That these things shall be added unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53546]]></link><description><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we hire new coaches we have to ask what ideas they have for raising funds to support the program, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35042]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we hire new coaches we have to ask what ideas they have for raising funds to support the program,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if I was in the position of the Czech coach, I would do the same, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if I was in the position of the Czech coach, I would do the same,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do....".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17723]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47658</guid></item></channel></rss>