<?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[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40774]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste without a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue,  That openest when the quiet light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue,  That openest when the quiet light   Succeeds the keen and frosty night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66405]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60225]]></link><description><![CDATA[In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells from hill to hill   Answer each other in the mist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53441]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is Venus personified. Her hair is naturally beautiful without artificial enhancement, and her sophisticated air tells us she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is Venus personified. Her hair is naturally beautiful without artificial enhancement, and her sophisticated air tells us she has the queen gene. Gentlemen, start your engines; she's high-maintenance. She puts in the time to be gorgeous every day and is accustomed to lots of adoration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2416]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4847]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .   By fairy hands their knell is rung,    By forms unseen their dirge is sung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58031]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49104]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free handset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone looks so much better when they smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone looks so much better when they smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won. That is all that matters in tournaments. If you win by one you're happy and that's all you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34202]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won. That is all that matters in tournaments. If you win by one you're happy and that's all you can say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52147]]></link><description><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. I want to be happy and very, very rich and successful and I will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -John Foster Dulles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56097]]></link><description><![CDATA[My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218]]></link><description><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45941]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34016</guid></item></channel></rss>