<?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[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   And the ground beneath them trembles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  You will tell me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  You will tell me that I am always saying the same thing: it is true, for this is the best and easiest method I know; and as I use no other, I advise all the world to it. We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5972]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The energy of the mind is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 9-11 happened, our listeners were so generous, wanting to help and do anything they could, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 9-11 happened, our listeners were so generous, wanting to help and do anything they could,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find God working and manifest in him. He got near to God by some saint of his that went before him, or that stood beside him, in whom he saw the divine presence. That saint again lighted his fire at some flame before him; and so the power of the sainthoods animates and fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is entitled to the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is entitled to the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd do anything to go back to those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd do anything to go back to those days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18085]]></link><description><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27611]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4817</guid></item></channel></rss>