<?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[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair and softly goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair and softly goes far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone tells me that the Italian championship is the toughest in the world, but I'm not afraid. In my career, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone tells me that the Italian championship is the toughest in the world, but I'm not afraid. In my career, I've always scored goals, wherever I've been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three doubles teams played very well. Our No. 1 doubles (Greg Janssen and Todd Fuller) got off to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33357]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three doubles teams played very well. Our No. 1 doubles (Greg Janssen and Todd Fuller) got off to a slow start but managed to turn the match around when they needed to and came back strong in the second and third set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd have been if I hadn't seen the match,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28278]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, we have won the war, virtually, and we have to win the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They become responsive to grandiose schemes, and will display unequaled steadfastness, formidable energies and a special fitness in the performance of tasks which would stump superior people. It seems paradoxical that defeat in dealing with the possible should embolden people to attempt the impossible, but a familiarity with the mentality of the weak reveals that what seems a path of daring is actually an easy way out: It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. For when we fail in attaining the impossible we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to achieve a revolution by consciousness for two thousand years. Who would deny that Christian consciousness could have changed the world? Yet it was the world that changed Christian consciousness. If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, noncompetitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture -- we could have the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65050]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12762]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4787]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real failure in life is the failure to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real failure in life is the failure to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a child of his environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a child of his environment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59768]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46449]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,   Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, andthat people can only experience true success and enduring happiness asthey learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling me to get the bat, it was like, 'Oh my God,' ... The first thing I remember walking to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling me to get the bat, it was like, 'Oh my God,' ... The first thing I remember walking to the plate was, 'Man, these lights are good.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21023]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item></channel></rss>