<?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[Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -Chief Seattle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62659]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of our knowledge of Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50547]]></link><description><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550]]></link><description><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise   As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand:    A thousand years their cloudy wings expand     Around me, and a dying Glory smiles      O'er the far times, when many a subject land       Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines,        Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42266]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight to us early. Our offense was very stagnant today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33183]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders that I yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear,Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three doubles teams played very well. Our No. 1 doubles (Greg Janssen and Todd Fuller) got off to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33357]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three doubles teams played very well. Our No. 1 doubles (Greg Janssen and Todd Fuller) got off to a slow start but managed to turn the match around when they needed to and came back strong in the second and third set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, boy, that never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, boy, that never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20577]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59041]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish. [Lat., Ibis redibis non morieris in bello.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish. [Lat., Ibis redibis non morieris in bello.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more of bitterness than good nature in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50515]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have another language is to possess a second soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24023]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have another language is to possess a second soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me playing and wanting to start would be selfish and not a team thing. If the timing isn't there, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me playing and wanting to start would be selfish and not a team thing. If the timing isn't there, you don't have a proper working machine. You've got a Ferrari with a Nissan engine and you can't have that now. It's like wearing white socks with dress pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2955]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2955</guid></item></channel></rss>