<?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[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,   Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a clear message addressed to the journalists in order to [dissuade] them from criticizing the authorities. It's obvious that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29422]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a clear message addressed to the journalists in order to [dissuade] them from criticizing the authorities. It's obvious that referring to terms like territorial integrity, religious hostility, violence, the [Uzbek] authorities mean that they are afraid [of] another riot or revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solv.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632]]></link><description><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a rebirth of hope, a reorganization of thought, and a reconstruction of dreams. Once forgiving begins, dreams can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a rebirth of hope, a reorganization of thought, and a reconstruction of dreams. Once forgiving begins, dreams can be rebuilt. When forgiving is complete, meaning has been extracted from the worst of experiences and used to create a new set of moral rules and a new interpretation of life's events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100 percent of the ministry's (procurement) budget that has gone AWOL (absent without leave), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100 percent of the ministry's (procurement) budget that has gone AWOL (absent without leave),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first half we were firing on all cylinders. They couldn't do anything against us. We let them back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first half we were firing on all cylinders. They couldn't do anything against us. We let them back into the game. We let them get a couple of big plays and momentum and the bottom line is we just didn't take care of business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20353]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40209]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will bring havoc, even within our lifetime,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the onlything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the onlything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ratings and advertising revenues in all television markets over a two-week period in February.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63416]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27913]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like feeling a piece of soap   All over the moo-cow's nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything makes me nervous - except making films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything makes me nervous - except making films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NRSC has never heard of them and we're not affiliated with their fund-raising efforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NRSC has never heard of them and we're not affiliated with their fund-raising efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48688]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44636]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176</guid></item></channel></rss>