<?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[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see only the ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, we burn daylight, ho! Nay, that's not so.  I mean, sir, in delay   We waste our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, we burn daylight, ho! Nay, that's not so.  I mean, sir, in delay   We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511]]></link><description><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,   Whose ear is ever open, and his eye    Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la fuente.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. -King Henry V. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31627]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent discussions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really fun. He's always thinking, so he has a lot to talk about. I had fun just listening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39365]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really fun. He's always thinking, so he has a lot to talk about. I had fun just listening to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communicate respectfully with the person. It's important parents talk to other parents and learn what questions to ask. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communicate respectfully with the person. It's important parents talk to other parents and learn what questions to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates . That's when I knew Caleb Mangum had arrived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy in town. It was a great way to get into the industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Let any man turn to God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31160]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also for all men on earth; nay, he lives only for others, and not for himself. For it is to this end that he brings his own body into subjection, that he may be able to serve others more sincerely and more freely... Thus it is impossible that he should take his ease in this life, and not work for the good of his neighbors, since he must needs speak, act, and converse among men, just as Christ... had His conversation among men... It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and wellbeing he may be enabled to labor... for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a part of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61923]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which heaved her breast,   Fair child!--it was the bliss within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1470]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether the attitude is positive or negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it 's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it\'s indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65466</guid></item></channel></rss>