<?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[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a good way to get a point but a bad way to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10061]]></link><description><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land!   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,     From wandering on a foreign strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57139]]></link><description><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey there, but tears and blood   Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire,    And left a worse than desert where they passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature could   So fair a creature make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57380]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More students should really have access to this program. We'll apply for grants and seek support from private corporations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40504]]></link><description><![CDATA[More students should really have access to this program. We'll apply for grants and seek support from private corporations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643]]></link><description><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,   When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4774]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord was in his hand:"   And thine epitaph shall be--    "He was wretched ev'n as we;"     And thy tomb may be unhonoured in the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Word of God is the informing power of the revelation of God in the finite world. It is not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Word of God is the informing power of the revelation of God in the finite world. It is not, by any figure, to be identified with a book, or a temple, or a minister, or a shrine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46744]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in our backyard, and we need to help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a difference maker. He's just a kid that intimidates everyone else on the court. You can't beat him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33978]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a difference maker. He's just a kid that intimidates everyone else on the court. You can't beat him one-on-one, and you can't just let him go to work on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President will continue to be haunted by insinuations of cheating and corruption, and each time these stories come out, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President will continue to be haunted by insinuations of cheating and corruption, and each time these stories come out, it obviously will not be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39076</guid></item></channel></rss>