<?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[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273]]></link><description><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46455]]></link><description><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to learn a lot from this. It's going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32449]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to learn a lot from this. It's going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we have up there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16333]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our suppliers have access to what's moving and what our customers are doing, this is to their advantage. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our suppliers have access to what's moving and what our customers are doing, this is to their advantage. They can anticipate demand a lot better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;  He hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59974]]></link><description><![CDATA[This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;  He hath not touched you yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life free of addictions. Most addicts don't want to be addicts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11380]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so we change;   Motion so swift, we know not that we move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24993]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30430]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round and the kids had more of a free-swinging attitude. Some guys ballooned up a little and some played well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16148]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,   Truth was with her of ridicule the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free,  We thank with brief thanksgiving   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58993]]></link><description><![CDATA[From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free,  We thank with brief thanksgiving   Whatever gods may be    That no life lives forever;     That dead men rise up never;      That even the weariest river       Winds somewhere safe to sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58993</guid></item></channel></rss>