<?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[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engel's most famous book. Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are "now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible." Henceforth "all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially closed." This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26122]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699]]></link><description><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the valley has been at or below freezing for the last three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the valley has been at or below freezing for the last three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied mob in front of a roulette wheel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from harmony divine   The constant creaking of a country sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through the forest, or the gush   That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--    'Tis all the music of the wind, and we     Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hawk, the Kite, and the PigeonsThe pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hawk, the Kite, and the PigeonsThe pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year. Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on the ivories   Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,    And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the most loyal player money can buy. (Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the most loyal player money can buy. (Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36123]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way he plays and the way he goes about his business that makes him our sparkplug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got a lot of guys who can hit the home run so we've got to be ready. And we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39668]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got a lot of guys who can hit the home run so we've got to be ready. And we've got to tackle Lamont Jordan. He's a big running back, a bruiser with a lot of speed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope to continue property acquisition in this area so we can keep building a small number of homes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37467]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope to continue property acquisition in this area so we can keep building a small number of homes in between the larger projects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day provides its own gifts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day provides its own gifts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52733]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're always disappointed but I wasn't shocked. I felt we were probably a win or two short. That's the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're always disappointed but I wasn't shocked. I felt we were probably a win or two short. That's the way it ended up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   With that deep voice which from the skies    Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice.     God's angel, cries, Forbear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12414</guid></item></channel></rss>