<?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[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I have pretty much a green light on offense, and that's why it's working out so good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[You should know that Weisz, who's a darker and more enigmatic version of Kate Winslet , is taken. She was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32731]]></link><description><![CDATA[[You should know that Weisz, who's a darker and more enigmatic version of Kate Winslet , is taken. She was accompanied to the party by] Requiem for a Dream ... The Fountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin andjoins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55782]]></link><description><![CDATA[For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15660]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42042]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44054]]></link><description><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:   And trod the mountain height,    Where Science, young and bright,     Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.      Yet have I found no power to vie       With thine, severe necessity!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26926]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life -- that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if he were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called upon to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61143]]></link><description><![CDATA[To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sheriff cried on television because he has no money to pay his employees, and food is scarce, ... I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sheriff cried on television because he has no money to pay his employees, and food is scarce, ... I told them I would reach Gov. Bush and ask him to let the president know so they can get some help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] alone, are borne hither and thither from one hope to another; even if they concern themselves chiefly with him, they nevertheless stray from the right way in turning some part of their thinking in another direction. Yet such distrust cannot creep in where men have once for all truly known the abundance of his blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33523]]></link><description><![CDATA[That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty big hit by that kid. He did a good job. I think he was on base all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for those who respond to his call with upright life, because in those who are directed to the good by his Spirit he recognizes the only genuine insignia of his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head   The likeness of a kingly crown had on.    Satan was now at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110</guid></item></channel></rss>