<?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[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193]]></link><description><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise;   Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52348]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or our worthlessness, we are almost impervious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or our worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter worthlessness can be a source of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58498]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12469]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for his country, and we should raise the next generation by his example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are delivering the information to each local school district and their local school boards, who are representatives of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are delivering the information to each local school district and their local school boards, who are representatives of the general public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17647]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are certainly encouraging conservation of fuel, at this point, ... We are not at a panic stage at this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38464]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are certainly encouraging conservation of fuel, at this point, ... We are not at a panic stage at this point but we need to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union of hands--   And the flag of our Union for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1869]]></link><description><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243]]></link><description><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a single species off the list into recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13731]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful thing happens on the screen? Everybody there feels this overwhelming sense of whatever that emotion is? You’re surrounded by strangers but you’re all feeling the same thing. The feeling is intensified because it’s being shared by three hundred people all at the same instant. That’s what we try to do, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach to 1st classthey really beat up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29123]]></link><description><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows who his friends are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't about winning 55 or 60 games. It's about winning a title. That's what we were built for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32701]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't about winning 55 or 60 games. It's about winning a title. That's what we were built for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33348]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;  Earth felt the wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;  Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat   Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe    That all was lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56386</guid></item></channel></rss>