<?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[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a lot of clams to harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest accomplishment has been to consistently hit timeline commitments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest accomplishment has been to consistently hit timeline commitments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66820]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We two parted In silence and tears,  Half broken-hearted   To sever for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45560]]></link><description><![CDATA[We two parted In silence and tears,  Half broken-hearted   To sever for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18755]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go then merrily to Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go then merrily to Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;  Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;  Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,   No winter in thy year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is: "What does a woman want?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is: "What does a woman want?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were miracles long before Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were miracles long before Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In that the skill of conversation lies;   That shows and makes you both polite and wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31381]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested tables, ... If you're four persons as opposed to two, my first option would be to give it to four. But if I'm not busy I'll accommodate two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273]]></link><description><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57079]]></link><description><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58066]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last few minutes, I thought we took a few bad penalties. They are a great team and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32863]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last few minutes, I thought we took a few bad penalties. They are a great team and I think our team can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely something to be proud of. Those other guys are not a bunch of pushovers. I think there were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely something to be proud of. Those other guys are not a bunch of pushovers. I think there were four guys under 4:20. The other guys ran pretty good, I just try to push myself to an even higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solution of every problem is another problem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solution of every problem is another problem]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52924]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive to modern man, brought up in the atmosphere of relativism, in which tolerance is regarded almost as the highest of the virtues. But we must not suppose that this claim to universal validity is something that can quietly be removed from the Gospel without changing it into something entirely different from what it is... Jesus' life, his method, and his message do not make sense, unless they are interpreted in the light of his own conviction that he was in fact the final and decisive word of God to men... For the human sickness there is one specific remedy, and this is it. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946</guid></item></channel></rss>