<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34294]]></link><description><![CDATA[What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14071]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16823]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968]]></link><description><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And rides upon the storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47379]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house.  I am sent, with broom, before,   To sweep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house.  I am sent, with broom, before,   To sweep the dust behind the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or rather say, the cause of this defect,   For this effect defective comes by cause.    Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream,  The maid's romantic wish, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream,  The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame,   And poet's vision of eternal fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to correct your own faults than those of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3451]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-2 Watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55438]]></link><description><![CDATA[-2 Watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41336]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche of a college player. You have to always, constantly try to be on the same page with your players. You can't let them get too far away where you can't tell what they're thinking or what they're feeling. At the same time, it's not a sit-around-the-camp-fire session every day where we are discussing our feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277]]></link><description><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do whatever you do intensely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do whatever you do intensely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without tipping the economy into a recession then we can get through this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39589]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66812]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. - Inward Ho.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62665]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50951]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said we weren't going to lose. On any given night any one of our players can step up. She played great defensively and knocked down a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966]]></link><description><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We wanted the bragging rights, but we all were looking forward to this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30004</guid></item></channel></rss>