<?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[American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20646]]></link><description><![CDATA[American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  Love ... is very noticeable as fervour and devotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  Love ... is very noticeable as fervour and devotion and jubilation, and is yet not always the best thing; for sometimes it is not from love but is caused by nature that one has such taste and sweetness; or it may be a heavenly impression or it may be produced by the senses, and those who have most of this are not always the best. For even if it should be from God, our Lord gives this to such men in order to attract and charm them, and also to detach them from others. But if these same people later grow in love, they may not have so many feelings, and then it will become clear that they have love, if they remain wholly faithful to God without any such support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19451]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. This will be the first one that I'll play in after being picked for the past three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3161]]></link><description><![CDATA[For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in previous years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as "individualistic" those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17445]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40585]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When he got to 8 or 9 years old, he was a heck of a basketball player, baseball player. He had drive. He just liked to win. That's his motivation, to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he liveth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8141]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he liveth, whithersoever he goeth, even as Thy glance never quitteth any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546   All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546   All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a great 20 minutes and (then) we lost our composure. We didn't match their intensity to start the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a great 20 minutes and (then) we lost our composure. We didn't match their intensity to start the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such unremitting attention to the Oscars after the nominations come out. That automatically sparks greater sales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such unremitting attention to the Oscars after the nominations come out. That automatically sparks greater sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,   Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd love to come back, but I think they're pretty well set. I'll be playing somewhere. The league is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd love to come back, but I think they're pretty well set. I'll be playing somewhere. The league is going to have to drag me off the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32702</guid></item></channel></rss>