<?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[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/352]]></link><description><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19944]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37182]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are. The ground upon which good character rests is the very same ground from which man's work derives its value, namely, a mind wholly turned to God. Verily, if you were so minded, you might tread on a stone and it would be a more pious work than if you, simply for your own profit, were to receive the Body of the Lord and were wanting in spiritual detachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65020]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6763]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there's no way of getting to your door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11017]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it's being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,  Bur from deceit, bred by necessity;   For how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59971]]></link><description><![CDATA[His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,  Bur from deceit, bred by necessity;   For how can tyrants safely govern home    Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62620]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9645]]></link><description><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of players with a lot of potential. My team is getting better and better, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of players with a lot of potential. My team is getting better and better, but I prefer a team to a collection of stars. As a manager, you can never depend on one player. If he is injured, sick or thinks 'today I won't work' then you will lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64681]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45999]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,   To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,    Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad     (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,)      With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt       How power could condescend to do without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38318]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and how they live and act in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34820]]></link><description><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see a wilde civility,--    Doe more bewitch me than when art     Is too precise in every part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14635]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. You can't teach that kind of composure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19458]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart is my piñata. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart is my piñata.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58619]]></link><description><![CDATA[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics to puns;   It passed from Mahomet to Moses;    Beginning with the laws that keep     The planets in the radiant courses,      And ending with some precept deep       For dressing eels or shoeing horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47719]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60197]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is a a pain in the butt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44072]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44072</guid></item></channel></rss>