<?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[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22306]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is the music of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is the music of the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14770]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17227]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's beautiful when two strangers become best friends, it's terribly depressing when two best friends become strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's beautiful when two strangers become best friends, it's terribly depressing when two best friends become strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came in wanting to focus on some of their guys but we couldn't recover from that first goal. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30828]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came in wanting to focus on some of their guys but we couldn't recover from that first goal. They have a couple of guys that that really flow that team. After they got that first goal, we kind of hit the panic button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53368]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have stuck with it. They deserve to be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42650]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were worn out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29751]]></link><description><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy of a story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25626]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37778]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a gratefull man give mony when he askes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11332]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no crime to steal from a thief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no crime to steal from a thief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59067</guid></item></channel></rss>