<?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[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent discussions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head,   Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Bench coach) Ron Wotus gives me all the pitches each guy has thrown over the last five days, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34862]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Bench coach) Ron Wotus gives me all the pitches each guy has thrown over the last five days, ... We have a form attached to the lineup card. ... There have been some times a guy gets up even two or three times and doesn't get in the game. We don't forget about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we do see the benefits of RFID to managing inventory for retailers, we think the item-level tagging poses a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39566]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we do see the benefits of RFID to managing inventory for retailers, we think the item-level tagging poses a serious issue for consumer privacy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is anything besides the mind ever boggled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is anything besides the mind ever boggled?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not abandoning the basics. We're trying to show people that we're about more than just basics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65912]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got kicked on the inside at the end of the game in Portland. It was a bone bruise. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got kicked on the inside at the end of the game in Portland. It was a bone bruise. It was real puffy and stiff, but the swelling has gone down a little bit. I never had one like this, on the inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think it was going to be kind of weird, but it (was). I was having fun. I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think it was going to be kind of weird, but it (was). I was having fun. I love those guys and I miss them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26068]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is born a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is born a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember Hallie became the second town in Wisconsin to become a five-person board, and that's something Zeal fought real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember Hallie became the second town in Wisconsin to become a five-person board, and that's something Zeal fought real hard for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63246]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36701]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil orimperfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079]]></link><description><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item></channel></rss>