<?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[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  And do the best to climb, and get to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14199]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep breathand say instead, "My resources are otherwise engaged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die grosste Tugend und die schlimmsten Hunde, still.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're dealing with an exceedingly wealthy industry. If you hit them with a verdict of few million dollars, they could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42053]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're dealing with an exceedingly wealthy industry. If you hit them with a verdict of few million dollars, they could probably take that out of small change, ... The point of a punitive damage verdict is to punish the company for its wrongdoing. $3 billion (would) punish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught me a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23582]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will bring with you here your common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61579]]></link><description><![CDATA[All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm excited to be part of this generation. Good for Candace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm excited to be part of this generation. Good for Candace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lie. When I go to games, I cheer as hard as I can for the Bulls, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42589]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lie. When I go to games, I cheer as hard as I can for the Bulls, and I boo as hard as I can for whoever they're playing. I don't feel comfortable if players are allowed to easily jump into the crowd whenever they feel like it's necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he was very mindful of his role as a guest. He said something along the lines of, 'You all do whatever you are comfortable with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57278]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36311]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2354]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I study history, the more I realize people are the same. The same issues come up again and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I study history, the more I realize people are the same. The same issues come up again and again. In terms of marriage, relationships and courtship, it's all basically the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get married you forget about kissing other women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get married you forget about kissing other women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39235]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly aiming for that but it's hard to crystal-ball it. At the moment it's very encouraging because he's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly aiming for that but it's hard to crystal-ball it. At the moment it's very encouraging because he's not feeling much [pain] at all in everyday activities, which he did before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never force yourself to have space in anyone's life, because if they really know your worth, they will surely create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never force yourself to have space in anyone's life, because if they really know your worth, they will surely create one for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62928</guid></item></channel></rss>