<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around Salem, so we've been able to bring them back into the hospital. We haven't been that lucky with Richard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really affects us is the guys in front of us. When you have people on base it causes problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35252]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really affects us is the guys in front of us. When you have people on base it causes problems for them when we come up. If nobody is on base, they can be a little more fine with their pitches and not have to worry about leaving anything out over the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had all the size. But we met them halfway and tried to make them score from 10 feet out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37486]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had all the size. But we met them halfway and tried to make them score from 10 feet out instead of 5 feet out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20734]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my best meanings, I remain   Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27389]]></link><description><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair as ever and as fit to use;   So both the flower doth stay and honey run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were so close against Auburn and Smiths Station and didn't get the win. Tonight we were finally able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were so close against Auburn and Smiths Station and didn't get the win. Tonight we were finally able to sniff out a win and get it against a very good Central team. Hopefully that will carry over through (spring break) and get us going in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the doers, not takers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030]]></link><description><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a sense, the U.S. is no longer leading the scenario. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a sense, the U.S. is no longer leading the scenario.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59467]]></link><description><![CDATA[You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abuse of cabmen in a block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abuse of cabmen in a block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2341]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46465]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaither came in ranked nationally so we came out here tonight like we had nothing to lose. So instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaither came in ranked nationally so we came out here tonight like we had nothing to lose. So instead of being uptight, we just came out relaxed and played our game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184</guid></item></channel></rss>