<?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[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of "religion".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53207]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely expected more consolidation in the industry, although it is always hard to imagine a deal of this magnitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely expected more consolidation in the industry, although it is always hard to imagine a deal of this magnitude. Mirage's management has underperformed and the stock has languished recently, making it a great opportunity for MGM Grand. But this will have to be a friendly deal if it has a shot of working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They laugh that win! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51457]]></link><description><![CDATA[They laugh that win!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lives in hope danceth without musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lives in hope danceth without musick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the onlything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the onlything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit  Is feather'd oftentimes with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit  Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13829]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240   We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29959]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just can't work that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just can't work that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like summer tempest came her tears: Sweet my child, I live for thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like summer tempest came her tears: Sweet my child, I live for thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65065]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35447]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect them to be blockbusters if they produced enough to supply developed nations and undeveloped nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46968</guid></item></channel></rss>