<?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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native wild   Is still a mighty mountain child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love fools experiments. I am always making them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love fools experiments. I am always making them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19789]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60320]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think each one of this children and his wife,   His home, his parents, living yet and dead.    For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,     And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to play than do nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to play than do nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10454]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their patron hints the cold or heat,   To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do want your big guns for the play-offs. We'll just have to knuckle down and work as a unit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32588]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do want your big guns for the play-offs. We'll just have to knuckle down and work as a unit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30573]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the two pitchers due to all the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712]]></link><description><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58142]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;    And, to the toils of nature true,     Wreath their capacious nests anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to the lass with the merry black eyes! Here's a health to the lad with the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to the lass with the merry black eyes! Here's a health to the lad with the blue ones!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our ignorance brings us closer to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our ignorance brings us closer to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in a position to take advantage of them. We never would have been there if we hadn't awoken from the funk we were in at the start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,  Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. Will duty? Here is a person never the like. Will fear? Here is wrath never the like. Will remorse? Here are sins never the like. Will kindness? Here is love never the like. Will bounty? Here are benefits never the like. Will all these? Here they be all, all in the highest degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True prayer is something more than desire. It is no mere subjective instinct, ... no blind outreach. If it met ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6584]]></link><description><![CDATA[True prayer is something more than desire. It is no mere subjective instinct, ... no blind outreach. If it met no response, no answer, it would soon be weeded out of the race. Prayer has stood the test of experience. In fact, the very desire to pray is in itself prophetic of a heavenly Friend. So this native need of the soul rose out of the divine origin of the soul, and it has steadily verified itself as a safe guide to reality. In the first instance it is not asking for anything, it is not petition; all it seeks is God Himself: Let me find Thee, let me know Thee, then I will ask of Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the church:  We must not admit for one moment the truth of a statement often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the church:  We must not admit for one moment the truth of a statement often made, that the man who devotes himself to the establishment of the church, declining to be involved in all sorts of activities for the improvement of social conditions, is indifferent to, or heedless of, the sufferings and injustices under which men suffer. He is nothing of the kind: he is simply a man who is sure of his foundation, and is convinced that the only way to any true advancement is spiritual, and is Christ; and therefore he persists, in spite of all appearances, in clinging to Christ as the only foundation, and in building all his hopes for the future on the acceptance of Christ. He is not content with attacks upon symptoms of evil; they seem to him superficial: he goes to the roots. He cannot be content with teaching men Christian principles of conduct, "Christian ideals of social life" -- still less with the establishment of colleges and clubs. Nothing but Christ Himself, faith in Christ, the obedience of Christ, seems to him equal to the need, and nothing else is his work but the establishment of that foundation. In doing this he is not showing indifference to social evils, he is not standing aloof from beneficent movements; he is actively engaged in laying the axe to the roots of the trees which bear the evil. That is not indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found out this... emblematical use of sleep, that it should be a representation of death, God, who wrought and perfected his work, before Nature began, (for Nature was but his Apprentice, to learn in the first seven days, and now is his foreman, and works next under him) God, I say, intended sleep only for the refreshing of man by bodily rest, and not for a figure of death, for he intended not death itself then. But Man having induced death upon himself, God hath taken Man's Creature, death, into his hand, and mended it, and whereas it hath in itself a fearfull form and aspect, so that Man is afraid of his own Creature, God presents it to him, in a familiar, in an assiduous, in an agreeable and acceptable form, in sleep, that so when he awakes from sleep and says to himself, shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now, when I was asleep, he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his Melancholique fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep. As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death, to live that life which we cannot out-live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist--   Then he was a Man and a Positivist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9089</guid></item></channel></rss>