<?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[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58865]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2239]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61057]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of this game is mental. If you get mentally prepared and you're practicing the way you should, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32226]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of this game is mental. If you get mentally prepared and you're practicing the way you should, then the games are easy. It's just a mind-set. Work hard in practice and the game becomes easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4056]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that our law enforcers have yet to become serious about fighting corruption. In contrast, the people seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37479]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that our law enforcers have yet to become serious about fighting corruption. In contrast, the people seem to have more enthusiasm to bring graft cases out into the open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women play more mobile games than men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women play more mobile games than men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by God to adapt to deserts made by treekilling human beings The animal made by human commitee had pickled pigs' feet .. the pigs now had no feet .. frog's legs ...the frogs now had no legs chicken's thighs... the chickens now had no thighs lamb's ribs .. the lamb now had no ribs turkey's breasts.. the turkey's chest was carved sheep's eyes which watched the devourers calf brains which contained Mad Cow and God sent angels to wipe all violence from the earth from this day forth © S N Shriver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing canrnbe both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63095]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place to sleep. I turned down the offer to be in a camp that is set up in country ... they are occupying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41185]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32476]]></link><description><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e just didn't do the job on the base paths. Ten hits should mean 10 runs for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful community collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful community collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399]]></link><description><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45609]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3534]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45293]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Florida Republican Party spends its money on campaigns and getting new local candidates elected, ... We don't lobby the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Florida Republican Party spends its money on campaigns and getting new local candidates elected, ... We don't lobby the Legislature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30947</guid></item></channel></rss>