<?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[Fear is excitement without breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31719]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. He did outstanding for a young guy that was a little nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one of the top fighters at that gym, but Cliff had the endurance. He had a lot of heart and persevered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child!   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;    Ah! the sun comes never near us,     And the heavens look dark and wile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole idea of coming to Pakistan is very exciting on many levels. It's exciting because I know we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole idea of coming to Pakistan is very exciting on many levels. It's exciting because I know we are the first Western artists to come and play a big concert here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58097]]></link><description><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things please more, which are more expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things please more, which are more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14562]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35945]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storytelling, writing, and song writing are so connected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Storytelling, writing, and song writing are so connected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot picture a world so fair--   Sorrow and death may not enter there;    Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom,     For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,      It is there, it is there, my child!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44323]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3581]]></link><description><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going on behind the scenes, but good bums come in all shapes and sizes''.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a serial entrepreneur. Somebody stop him before he makes a killing again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a serial entrepreneur. Somebody stop him before he makes a killing again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23027</guid></item></channel></rss>