<?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[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24851</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[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63302]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Sunshine let it be, or frost,  Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost,  Thee Thyself we cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're improving. And the good thing about this is that we haven't reached our potential yet as an overall team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're improving. And the good thing about this is that we haven't reached our potential yet as an overall team. In certain tournaments we have guys that do well and some that falter. But when we get everyone clicking together, which is the sectional, district and state, then we're going to be turning some heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12270]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not unusual to find meals or events held, not only in conference center rooms, but also in lounges, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not unusual to find meals or events held, not only in conference center rooms, but also in lounges, restaurants, around pool facilities or other outdoor locations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset me all that much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22758]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38979]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of Super Bowl ad time, ... This decision sets a puzzling precedent by failing to hold all licensees responsible for the material broadcast over their stations. Why announce such a thorough investigation, if we just let some of the stations that broadcast this material completely off the hook?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue ofResponsibility on the west coast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue ofResponsibility on the west coast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of our goals was to have a quarter where we only gave up nine points or less. Instead, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37388]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of our goals was to have a quarter where we only gave up nine points or less. Instead, we only gave up nine in the half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10164]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinke of ease, but worke on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinke of ease, but worke on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15624]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need strength to let go of something. What you reallyneed is understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need strength to let go of something. What you reallyneed is understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is at ease seekes dainties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49363]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is at ease seekes dainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396</guid></item></channel></rss>