<?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[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60530]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25847]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45079]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in;  For every day I stand outside your door   And bid you wait, and rise to fight and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:    Strange all this difference should be,     'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5316]]></link><description><![CDATA[What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  And in the calling, let him nothing call,   But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38425]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He also had authority. If he was running with the ball, there was no way that you would even think of taking it off him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37574]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. We did that, and then on offense, our size took over. We got an eight-point lead and got into our half-court stuff and ran our offense through our big guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was battling that at-bat. I had two strikes and some runners on base. I was just trying to hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was battling that at-bat. I had two strikes and some runners on base. I was just trying to hit the ball hard somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving McCarthy was a disciplinary measure. Whoever does not obey leaves. Be it the best player or the best paid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving McCarthy was a disciplinary measure. Whoever does not obey leaves. Be it the best player or the best paid player. The team has to be more important than any player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even know what street Canada is on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even know what street Canada is on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world tojustify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reallyattractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a fleet that is mistress of the seas."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15588]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26286]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28450]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their umpiring ranks about being able to retain numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45367]]></link><description><![CDATA[You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar   Twined amorous round the raptures scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2992]]></link><description><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,   That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;    Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell     Of different flowers in odor and in hue,      Could make me any summer's story tell,       Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:        Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,         Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;          They were but sweet, but figures of delight,           Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.            Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,             As with your shadow I with these did play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2992</guid></item></channel></rss>