<?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[In the rush to rebuild in the southern states, Americans should pause to think more deeply about what it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rush to rebuild in the southern states, Americans should pause to think more deeply about what it would take to create more equitable and healthier communities in New Orleans and throughout the affected area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree;  Where Alph, the sacred river ran,   Through caverns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54319]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree;  Where Alph, the sacred river ran,   Through caverns measureless to man    Down to a sunless sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,   Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet    Builds in the weather on the outward wall,     Even in the force and road of casualty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew it was over after that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought they'd give it to Sharon. I was shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought they'd give it to Sharon. I was shocked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and maybe everyone is just happy to get off the ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65999]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392]]></link><description><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope it was an eye-opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed! -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed! -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the departments' conditions, we are very pleased with the outcome, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the departments' conditions, we are very pleased with the outcome,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37829]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18275]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12406]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't always get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an unbelievable playmaker. He's just one of those kids who has a knack to make plays. Now he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35379]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an unbelievable playmaker. He's just one of those kids who has a knack to make plays. Now he has to be a leader off the field, too, for our defense, and I think he's accepted that role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42807</guid></item></channel></rss>