<?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[Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miami was coming off of a tough loss and I thought if we got that doubles point we would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miami was coming off of a tough loss and I thought if we got that doubles point we would have a lot of momentum. We couldn't capitalize on that momentum and that's unusual for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and winning experience will have an immediate impact for our program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45226]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9760]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,— I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,   And laughing long life doth bring,    Says old Simon the King.   - Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the game. One game does not make a season and we will bounce back and get ready to play Bronson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven   With vain endeavour,    And memory of earth's bitter leaven     Effaced forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14067]]></link><description><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you do?" You say this, even if you meet me ten times in one single hour: you, Postumus, have nothing, I suppose, to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.   - William Wordsworth, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.   - William Wordsworth,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have transitioned the company where it could be a brand for decades to come,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them,  And God befriend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them,  And God befriend us as our cause is just!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ancestor of every action is a thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ancestor of every action is a thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2068]]></link><description><![CDATA[By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703</guid></item></channel></rss>