<?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[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach has said, 'Take something away from each race and put it in your toolbox.' By the Olympic race, the toolbox should be overflowing and it is getting there right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rebuilding process has begun. The architects are currently finalizing the plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rebuilding process has begun. The architects are currently finalizing the plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, buthe who has mastered himself is mightier still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   For all she had to say.    I walked a mile with Sorrow     And ne'er a word said she;      But, oh, the things I learned from her       When Sorrow walked with me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood toashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside in the moment of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail   Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other religious confessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41250]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other religious confessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject of Mr. Bean].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure own your errors past,   And make each day a critique on the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,   And these fresh nymphs encounter every one    In country footing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55502]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/92]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/92</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, give him time and scope,   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,    Confound themselves with working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5471]]></link><description><![CDATA[We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell  Into this world of ours? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell  Into this world of ours?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not thus are spirits fortified; Not this way went the Crucified;) From all that dims Thy Calvary, 0 Lamb of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreathsRise from the hearthstones of our native hamletsCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I promise you love. Time will not take that away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he does really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is the fool's name for Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is the fool's name for Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242</guid></item></channel></rss>