<?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[Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9513]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42184]]></link><description><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storm water is a source of pollution, because there are pollutants in our environment that the storm water picks up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Storm water is a source of pollution, because there are pollutants in our environment that the storm water picks up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day is short, the work is much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day is short, the work is much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,  Whence this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,  Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me?   And from within a thrilling voice replies,    Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts     Rush on my mind, a thousand images;      And I spring up as girt to run a race!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're essentially at the same location as the old Isthmus Playhouse. But that is where the similarity starts and ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're essentially at the same location as the old Isthmus Playhouse. But that is where the similarity starts and ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60300]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54743]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56035]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66783]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good time. They also leave knowing that people care about making the world just a little bit better and they're a part of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all candles be out, all cats be gray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5333]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all candles be out, all cats be gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way things are going in the world and in America -- allowing people to do what they like, creating their own religion and philosophy -- those people are going to pay for it. We don't want that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56006]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity and finishing games out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity and finishing games out. The 1-3-1 zone has been working really well for us. We force turnovers by the other team and get the fast break going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious to point out that the classical images which have been used, with more or less success, to depict different aspects of the Redemption -- the winning of a battle, the liberation of captives, the payment of a fine or debt, the curing of a disease, and so on -- are not to be interpreted literally, any more than, when we say that the eternal Word "came down from Heaven", we are describing a process of spatial translation. For here we are dealing with processes and events which, by the nature of the case, cannot be precisely described in everyday language...  The matter is quite different with such a statement as that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary; for, whatever aspects of the Incarnation outstrip the descriptive power of ordinary language, this at least is plainly statable in it. It means that Jesus was conceived in his mother's womb without previous sexual intercourse on her part with any male human being, and this is a straightforward statement which is either true or false. To say that the birth... of Jesus Christ cannot simply be thought of as a biological event, and to add that this is [not] what the Virgin Birth means, is a plain misuse of language; and no amount of talk about the appealing character of the "Christmas myth" can validly gloss this over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is totally paradoxical. Denmark is one of the countries in the world where press freedom is the most respected. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29421]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is totally paradoxical. Denmark is one of the countries in the world where press freedom is the most respected. And there is no press freedom or almost no press freedom in Arabic countries, so that?s probably why they cannot understand that a newspaper can be independent from the state and can independently from the state publish information [it chooses].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64220]]></link><description><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   And this our parting spring.    . . . .     Then, little Bird, this boon confer,      Come, and my requiem sing,       Nor fail to be the harbinger        Of everlasting spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28563]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whole thing is when I get my opportunity, I need to take advantage of it. I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39145]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whole thing is when I get my opportunity, I need to take advantage of it. I don't know how the situation is going to be, but going into practices, I'll go in just trying to compete with everybody else and give 100 percent. At the end of the day, I'll feel good about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A transcendent being can be any miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A transcendent being can be any miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44252]]></link><description><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42962</guid></item></channel></rss>