<?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[Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25106]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. -Anita Roddick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.   His coward lips did from their color fly,    And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world     Did lose his luster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36509]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25698]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23199]]></link><description><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies. The pipeline is full, and I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies. The pipeline is full, and I think we'll see a lot of transactions in the next few months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46056]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul trouble. When he came out of the game, we stopped attacking the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,  One crowded hour of glorious life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,  One crowded hour of glorious life   Is worth an age without a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise. [Fr., Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de seduction a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous parait fort compromise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a fair contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38043]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a fair contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54170]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlie played a great game. It was his opportunity and he hasn't let us down. He had lost three times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charlie played a great game. It was his opportunity and he hasn't let us down. He had lost three times to Roddick, and this was his day to beat him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32144]]></link><description><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 hits against the University of Mary, so it's capable of doing it. Right now our confidence is just lacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.  [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira   Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues  With a new colour as it gasps away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues  With a new colour as it gasps away,   The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all is gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses,  When pleasant sights salute the eyes  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23569]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses,  When pleasant sights salute the eyes   And pleasant scents the noses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60926]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46058</guid></item></channel></rss>