<?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[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48374]]></link><description><![CDATA[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25123]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,   To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a quality tournament. It was a good competitive tournament with excellent teams. The tournament is getting better year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a quality tournament. It was a good competitive tournament with excellent teams. The tournament is getting better year after year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the same game plan for us, and with Tiffany being out we all knew without even having to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the same game plan for us, and with Tiffany being out we all knew without even having to say anything that we all needed to step up. I think the main thing was that we got too caught up in their game, and we couldn't get back into our game plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boom, the South Capitol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29250]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boom, the South Capitol Street ballpark area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60109]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230</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[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48532]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing secure unlesse suspected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing secure unlesse suspected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37237]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can I get a raise if I balance the ball on my head on the Letterman Show? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can I get a raise if I balance the ball on my head on the Letterman Show?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51976]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.) [Lat., Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392]]></link><description><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41733]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31863]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a camp, ... so I didn't have the chance to be with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59387]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the lass that loves a sailor!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   The popular craving [for an English Bible] could not be stifled, and the sixteenth century saw the pioneering works of Tyndale and Coverdale; then, two years after Coverdale, the real "authorized version" appeared in 1537, when a mysterious translator called "Thomas Matthew" had his works not only dedicated to but licensed by Henry VIII. In the long run, what put the Bible into the hands of the common people was the influence exerted on public opinion and authority by the reformation of the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62708</guid></item></channel></rss>