<?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[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004]]></link><description><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ... and that will lengthen the time before their recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I hit it pretty good and made most of the putts that are looked at. It was a good putting day basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal part of faith is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal part of faith is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That question fills me with euphoria. We don't want to bog ourselves down with thinking too much. We want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29990]]></link><description><![CDATA[That question fills me with euphoria. We don't want to bog ourselves down with thinking too much. We want to go and enjoy the experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4365]]></link><description><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?"  "Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse.   These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough because we have lost some tough games this season. It's an area I hope we can solve by the time we begin region play because that is when it counts the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   The Christian is the real radical of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into merely maintaing the status quo. If it is true that evil is evil, that God hates it to the point of the cross, and that there is a moral law fixed in what God is in Himself, then Christians should be the first into the field against what is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62186]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,   It is the worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12244]]></link><description><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely be back in India for the next one-day international.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find thegenuine tinsel underneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21209]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find thegenuine tinsel underneath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21209</guid></item></channel></rss>