<?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[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge-that myth ismore potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge-that myth ismore potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful thanfacts-that hope always triumphs over experience-that laughter is the onlycure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18348]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written strange defeatures in my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. They were fun to watch play. When they received that award, they were all dressed up in red and white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the national average results is clear signs that speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft-landing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the place where the clustered palm-trees are,    At the last of the thirty palace-gates     The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom,      Orders a feast in his favorite room--       Glittering square of colored ice,        Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice,         Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates,          Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces,           Limes and citrons and apricots,            And wines that are known to Eastern princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45725]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like Jesus being lifted up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like Jesus being lifted up,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29429]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, he chose to live here, he wrote in French. It's why we're here, French and Irish together, to pay tribute to this great man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the Cadillac of biplanes. This is the fancy model, with leather seating. The workmanship inside is insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the Cadillac of biplanes. This is the fancy model, with leather seating. The workmanship inside is insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41403]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52425]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest -- there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld... All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17217]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12353]]></link><description><![CDATA[To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood, in Tennyson the ugliness of hypocrisy, in George Eliot the supremacy of duty, in Dickens the divinity of kindness, and in Ruskin the dignity of service. Irving teaches me the lesson of cheerfulness, Hawthorne shows me the hatefulness of sin, Longfellow gives me the soft, tranquil music of hope. Lowell makes us feel that we must give ourselves to our fellow men. Whittier sings to me of divine Fatherhood and human brotherhood. These are Christian lessons: who inspired them? Who put it into the heart of Martin Luther to nail those theses on the church door of Wittenberg? Who stirred and fired the soul of Savonarola? Who thrilled and electrified the soul of John Wesley? Jesus Christ is back of these all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your merit,   Is such a friend, that one had need    Be very much his friend indeed     To pardon or to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a bunch of coffee cups out, and coffee made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41001]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a bunch of coffee cups out, and coffee made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9925]]></link><description><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is zealous contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we got the shots we wanted and were in the right spots to score, so that's all you can ask. As long as we do that, the shots are going to fall eventually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]   - credited to Sophie Arnould,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that the country recognizes him as a national treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to credit my teammates. Without them I wouldn't have had any assists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32582]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to credit my teammates. Without them I wouldn't have had any assists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2959</guid></item></channel></rss>