<?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[Life is a state of consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a state of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one really tough guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32269]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one really tough guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, "Are you scared, too?" "You bet your sweet life I am." "Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too." We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, "Who else feels like this?" the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare,   A little child in a manger. The oxen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare,   A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,   To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there,   And the world's danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,   And as silently steal away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3971]]></link><description><![CDATA[No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the rest to the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the rest to the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did my book to help other people, ... People are always struggling and they need help and something to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did my book to help other people, ... People are always struggling and they need help and something to give them courage, so that's why I did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55911]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the biggest tournament of the season outside of the regional and state championships. All of the top players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38645]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the biggest tournament of the season outside of the regional and state championships. All of the top players are going to be there, and it should be a good preview of the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what is not known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50805]]></link><description><![CDATA[What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what is not known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31748]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545]]></link><description><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53175</guid></item></channel></rss>