<?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[Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14616]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should do is leave the existing facility in place and start (building) a new school on the property. They are throwing money away. They are putting Band-Aids on the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's their best athlete, number one pitcher and a good hitter too at the three hole in the lineup. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28200]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's their best athlete, number one pitcher and a good hitter too at the three hole in the lineup. We're going to have to manufacture some runs against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15013]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in The Hours was a woman who fled the oppression of her home. Evelyn Ryan stayed. She chose to brave it out, because she was determined to make sure every one of those 10 kids of hers made it out of that house intact. It's heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;  Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.   Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;    Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28138]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62514]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just become a more accepted, more mainstream culinary choice in this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just become a more accepted, more mainstream culinary choice in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25441]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success because of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success because of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight   O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.      Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8638]]></link><description><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and sweet,   "To-day the Prince of Peace is born."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29010]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day extremely sick by chance   And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58378]]></link><description><![CDATA['Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3887</guid></item></channel></rss>