<?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[By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12403]]></link><description><![CDATA[By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn’t it be easier just to be outdated?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've essentially doubled our population, doubled our load, over the last 23 years. Yet we have not added any new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37896]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've essentially doubled our population, doubled our load, over the last 23 years. Yet we have not added any new infrastructure to serve that, from the standpoint of transmission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell,  A lady by me her compliments sends; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44461]]></link><description><![CDATA[News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell,  A lady by me her compliments sends;   And this is the news from Hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It was a good experience for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   And fall of many kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21107]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the antidote to despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the antidote to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63161]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, ?My God, man.? Every professional knew this was a possibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, ?My God, man.? Every professional knew this was a possibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28767]]></link><description><![CDATA[[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life around him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is only a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is only a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek restitution for health care costs related to smoking for the last 50 years and for future costs.] We are very appreciative of this opportunity to hold the tobacco industry to account for its destructive products, ... That it was unanimous indicates the power of this ruling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571</guid></item></channel></rss>