<?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[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's going to be a loan officer. I'm real proud of him and what he's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41066]]></link><description><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25657]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25657</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[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders. Zeal should not outrun discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55194]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; Give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and Dubai as a city never ceases to amaze me ... it is constantly changing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823</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[Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is just like the story of Al Capone. In the end he will be caught on tax evasion, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36765]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is just like the story of Al Capone. In the end he will be caught on tax evasion, and not because of the worst crimes he committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh!  The bitter wind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh!  The bitter wind makes not the victory vain.   Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has put this team on her back and hit big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ethics except the stern and strict rule that is laid down here [Rev. 2:15, 16] by St. John. An easy-going Christianity could never have survived; only the most convinced, resolute, almost bigoted adherence to the most uncompromising interepretation of its own principles could have given the Christians the courage and self-reliance that were needed. For them to hesitate or to doubt was to be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bullpen is something we have talked about since I've been here. Last year, we went with younger arms and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bullpen is something we have talked about since I've been here. Last year, we went with younger arms and it showed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man’s reaction to monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I didn't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37334]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I didn't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703</guid></item></channel></rss>