<?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[Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5617]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63724]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11322]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was shot for no reason. It's just like anyone walking up to anyone and saying, 'I don't like how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was shot for no reason. It's just like anyone walking up to anyone and saying, 'I don't like how your hair looks,' and shooting him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,   And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future. Instead the bill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29410]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future. Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55130]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature could   So fair a creature make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     Love stays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44625</guid></item></channel></rss>