<?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[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm confused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit  Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can do something you must first be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can do something you must first be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves and our people to give casually, we are really teaching contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pessimistic. And I don't see him back. The closer we get to June 1, you know, I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pessimistic. And I don't see him back. The closer we get to June 1, you know, I don't think he'll be with us. I'll be watching someone else for the Titans. That's not what we intended, but it looks like that's the way it's going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wider health implication is that commonly used SSRI antidepressants, which target the uptake of serotonin into neurons, may also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wider health implication is that commonly used SSRI antidepressants, which target the uptake of serotonin into neurons, may also impact the uptake in immune cells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17910]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good test to see how we respond, and see if we can beat them for a third time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very treacherous. ... It's better to wait until conditions are better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very treacherous. ... It's better to wait until conditions are better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set of attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18261]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes  Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are still going to pay for maintenance, but the CRC is in charge of operating the facility. They check people's BuzzCard, maintain the facility, and check for non-marking shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9029]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will be in the national light as a historic property in need of preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will be in the national light as a historic property in need of preservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947]]></link><description><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;   Sure John and I are more than quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. And "by still waters" ? No, not always so; Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow, And o'er my soul the waves and billows go. But when the storm beats loudest, and I cry Aloud for help, the Master standeth by, And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I." So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know Why, in His wisdom, He hath led me so.  ... Anonymous    July 24, 1998  Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54203]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a fantastic breakthrough advertising and marketing campaign that is sure to be a great success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38065]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a fantastic breakthrough advertising and marketing campaign that is sure to be a great success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes?  Does it blow so strong that she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes?  Does it blow so strong that she must fetch   Her breath in sudden sighs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States of America to lead the world in the energy revolution, and not lag behind Japan or Germany]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is an outstanding person with impeccable credentials as both a person and a student athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36113</guid></item></channel></rss>