<?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[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10008]]></link><description><![CDATA[My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far we run before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far we run before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without me having to tell them. They remember every shot they take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65670]]></link><description><![CDATA[My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure  To brood so long upon one luxury,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20615]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure  To brood so long upon one luxury,   Unless it did, though fearfully, espy    A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is aware of how to kill the birds. This is the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is aware of how to kill the birds. This is the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50650]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a learning curve for all these young men. One has to hope that they learn quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a learning curve for all these young men. One has to hope that they learn quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf   Came I to crouch, as I conceive.    Dame Nature doubtless has designed     A man the monarch of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. We should have played to conserve our 1-0 lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41600]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  How readily we assume that the Church is the only channel of divine action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  How readily we assume that the Church is the only channel of divine action among men! Common sense tells us this assumption is wrong -- and nothing in the Bible supports such a conclusion. Believing that God is the Lord of history, we believe that God is at work now in the development of industry and commerce throughout the world, in the experiments and researches of the scientists, in the deliberations of the United Nations, and in the course of events in Berlin and Havana, in Moscow and Peiping, and Detroit. One might say, then that He seems to be doing some very strange and contradictory things! But, though we cannot claim to know God's purpose in all this, we do believe that God acts in all these circumstances. The revolutionary changes of our time are not all a mistake: they are not taking place without God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60255]]></link><description><![CDATA[VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be short practice time. It might put us at a disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094]]></link><description><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63208]]></link><description><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before finishing the regular season at Lincoln, its going to be real close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities of earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give someone all of your time if they're only gonna give you half of theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give someone all of your time if they're only gonna give you half of theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27584]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50794]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer,  Yet runs himself life's mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer,  Yet runs himself life's mad career,   Wild as the wave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't play particularly well early in the game, but we were able to come back and play stronger in the third and fourth quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66253]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66253</guid></item></channel></rss>