<?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[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50387]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have an intense atmosphere, and it will test our mettle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   Is not a woman's part.    If man come not to gather     The roses where they stand,      They fade among their foliage,       They cannot seek his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60173]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44945]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem  Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3883]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10930]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37038]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28361]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now is to get ready for Tuesday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion -- boat dealers, marinas, restaurants, tackle shops -- everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house is a castle which the King cannot enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking he SAT is like going to the doctor. It scares the willies out of you, but once you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking he SAT is like going to the doctor. It scares the willies out of you, but once you get there it's really not that bad, and in the end it's all for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38091]]></link><description><![CDATA[June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had a better crop than we thought, which dropped the prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what theythink laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what theythink laughable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42692]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2808]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us.   And foolish notion;    What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,     And ev'n devotion!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on,  Who never said a foolish thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on,  Who never said a foolish thing,   And never did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12016]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,   And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498</guid></item></channel></rss>