<?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[A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of a place like Russia. [Say] some crook steals it, he sells it to Osama bin Laden, Osama bin Laden brings it to Cleveland, or Boston, or L.A., and blows it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair words butter no parsnips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair words butter no parsnips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe Maddock did a good job in the centre last week and he deserves to stay in the side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe Maddock did a good job in the centre last week and he deserves to stay in the side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16865]]></link><description><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23855]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you... Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarred with the same stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tarred with the same stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43183]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of life is determined by its activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of life is determined by its activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60356]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In native worth and honour clad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62330]]></link><description><![CDATA[In native worth and honour clad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32795]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was predestined to have free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was predestined to have free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47982]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early herbs are springing:    When the brookside, bank, and grove     All with blossom laden,      Shine with beauty, breathe of love,       Woo the timid maiden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream,  When Sol in joy is seen to leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54328]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream,  When Sol in joy is seen to leave   The earth with crimson beam;    When islands that wandered far     Above his sea couch lie,      And here and there some gem-like star       Re-opes its sparkling eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20570]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. [Lat., Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,  Iule ceratis ope Daedalea   Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus    Nomina ponto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18839]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? All you have to do is speak. Go give some away now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one." [Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2486</guid></item></channel></rss>