<?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[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40924]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30091]]></link><description><![CDATA[What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. That indeed would be my definition of God: God is He with whom we have ultimately to do, the final reality to which we have to face up, and with whom we have, in the last resort, to reckon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the creature; subordinating that creature's fugitive activities and desires to the standard set by this solemn apprehension of Reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want their character to grow from opening night to closing night and find new things. We don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37375]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want their character to grow from opening night to closing night and find new things. We don't want to find that in a fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible to industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible to industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces. They tried with all their strength, and were not able to do it. He next opened the faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons' hands, upon which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these words: My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61373]]></link><description><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to come back May 1, and then we'll study it and we'll sit down with the president and university officials and decide what we're going to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22315]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40080]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58</guid></item></channel></rss>