<?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[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44045]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39192]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased that our first mission for NASA on Atlas V is such an exciting and important project. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased that our first mission for NASA on Atlas V is such an exciting and important project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to keep the proper perspective on high school sports. Sometimes, sports can seem like a runaway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to keep the proper perspective on high school sports. Sometimes, sports can seem like a runaway train, so we have to remind our student-athletes that education comes first, and that you have to be a good sport to play and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23538]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne l'est jamais avec du jugement.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on all flowing waters sweet   Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--    Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,     A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,      Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/432]]></link><description><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13874]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12958]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone, ... And that is to lead the Columbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone, ... And that is to lead the Columbus Crew to the MLS Cup in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60207]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56058]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20059]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16171]]></link><description><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.   Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40312</guid></item></channel></rss>