<?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[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's upsetting (we lost) but it's great to be a part of a team that never gives up. Every team's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's upsetting (we lost) but it's great to be a part of a team that never gives up. Every team's goal is to make it to the final day. We won that first game and then the second and it was like, 'Oh, wow.' It's great to have come so far, especially since not many people had high expectations for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. William R. Bradford -Anwar El-Sadat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just learning the basics, like fielding and throwing. And they're going to make a lot of mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35399]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just learning the basics, like fielding and throwing. And they're going to make a lot of mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world   Than calling it at moments back to this.    The busy have no time for tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  There is no longer any room in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  There is no longer any room in the world for a merely external form of Christianity, based upon custom. The world is entering upon a period of catastrophe and crisis when we are being forced to take sides, and in which a higher and more intense spiritual life will be demanded of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little and good fills the trencher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little and good fills the trencher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray hair is God's graffiti. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray hair is God's graffiti.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,   And trembl'd with fear at your frown!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2492]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities of at least four or five generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's their last match. They're going out there and dominating and we're going to step it up here the next couple weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything?  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,   Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš Everybody gets excited about this.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37011]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš Everybody gets excited about this.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be a strong political message from the United States ... for what we are doing. Israel is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32599]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be a strong political message from the United States ... for what we are doing. Israel is a cornerstone for stability in the Middle East.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45616]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy   Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,    Which scorns a modern invocation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind conscious of its own rectitude. [Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51845]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind conscious of its own rectitude. [Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21371]]></link><description><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked the students to wear white and carry American flags at school. We can display flags of the countries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked the students to wear white and carry American flags at school. We can display flags of the countries where we came from during International Day. We need to show our support and love for the U.S. on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28772</guid></item></channel></rss>