<?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[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts tough but is still sexy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control ofyour life. If you don't, life controls you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57994]]></link><description><![CDATA[For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23524]]></link><description><![CDATA[On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6646]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333</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[Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11151]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38078]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work to do, and we're going to work hard tomorrow in practice; I guarantee that. ... We're getting a little lackadaisical, and that's going to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice President Dan Quayle    Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. •Ambrose Bierce    You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16180]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49403]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1126]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,  And wings it with sublime desires,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,  And wings it with sublime desires,   And fits it to bespeak the Deity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the games we won on the road set a good tone for this club. They started to hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the games we won on the road set a good tone for this club. They started to hit well during the end of the road trip and they carried that on tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4686</guid></item></channel></rss>