<?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[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a drag of cloud.muffled thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46708</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[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a very big guy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34267]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a very big guy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in Game 4, freshman Balee Cox served four consecutive points. That shifted the momentum, gave us back the lead and we finished it out from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60143]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It?s definitely a bonus having Ed back. It?s not only me that?s a vet now. He knows what goes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It?s definitely a bonus having Ed back. It?s not only me that?s a vet now. He knows what goes in on in the D-line room and what (defensive line) coach (Larry) Johnson expects from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest--  But middle age by no fond wile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest--  But middle age by no fond wile,   No soothing calm is blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program really the best?' ... Children still fall through the cracks even in traditionally good school districts, and charter schools are all about helping kids get a better education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volumes so far are low and I believe we will end (the day) in the black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volumes so far are low and I believe we will end (the day) in the black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59229]]></link><description><![CDATA[All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48688]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough times never last but tough people do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tough times never last but tough people do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude now; our individuality begins with it; our personality grows strong because of it; and we know, if we know anything, that while the more we approach the good the more we please God, at the same time the more we approach the good the more nobly distinctive, the more beautifully individual do our characters become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20570]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. [Lat., Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,  Iule ceratis ope Daedalea   Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus    Nomina ponto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,  Without all hope of day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,  Without all hope of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50476]]></link><description><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids really look up to Bob. He treats every kid equally. This is the hardest working team I've ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids really look up to Bob. He treats every kid equally. This is the hardest working team I've ever coached and it's thanks to him. He's such a huge part of the team. If I coach another 30 years, Bob will be one of the two or three kids I remember most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had to go to war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is strength withheld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is strength withheld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10840</guid></item></channel></rss>