<?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[There is the possibility of losing your hearing. That's when it gets to a very serious level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the possibility of losing your hearing. That's when it gets to a very serious level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11495]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are good, some middling, more bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some things are good, some middling, more bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54402]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43460]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10944]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our kids are playing at or above any level of expectations that anyone has outside of Deep Run. Our boys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our kids are playing at or above any level of expectations that anyone has outside of Deep Run. Our boys believe in themselves, they believe in each other; the coaches believe in them; and they don't think they are out of any game, no matter what the score is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. -King Richard III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56017]]></link><description><![CDATA[True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8727]]></link><description><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746]]></link><description><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end of wisdom, the new law, is, "Thou shalt." To be Christian is to be old? Not a bit of it. To be Christian is to be reborn, and free, and unafraid, and immortally young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We're not like this gothic, brooding, sitting-around-with-wine-in-silver-goblets, kind of Hot Topic thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32464]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We're not like this gothic, brooding, sitting-around-with-wine-in-silver-goblets, kind of Hot Topic thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has changed He has grownNo longer bud but Love Fullblown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4209]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has changed He has grownNo longer bud but Love Fullblown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10928]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,  Bear on your wings and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,  Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt a whole lot of stuff. I'm overwhelmed in this experience, ... I'm happy the coaching staff gave me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt a whole lot of stuff. I'm overwhelmed in this experience, ... I'm happy the coaching staff gave me the opportunity to go out there and help. I just want to be a part, and it feels good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it,  And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it,  And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour.   This life's a fort committed to my trust,    Which I must not yield up, till it be forced:     Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die,      But he that boldly bears calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors interested in McClatchy, frankly. But with this merger, McClatchy becomes the most interesting name in the group. It goes from an interesting little niche story to a major story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal was to offer something unprecedented to the greatest baseball fans in America. The people of the state of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal was to offer something unprecedented to the greatest baseball fans in America. The people of the state of Wisconsin continue to show tremendous passion for the Brewers, and this is our gesture to thank them for their incredible support in my first year as owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   In this state of things I saw no remedy but faith and patience. The passage of Scripture which subdued and controlled my mind was this, "The servant of the Lord must not strive." It was painful indeed to see the church, with the exception of the aisles, almost forsaken; but I thought that if God would only give a double blessing to the congregation that did attend, there would on the whole be as much good done as if the congregation were doubled and the blessing limited to only half the amount. This comforted me many, many times, when, without such a reflection, I should have sunk under my burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in the middle of the review process with the ULA deal. All of our attention is focused on that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37583]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in the middle of the review process with the ULA deal. All of our attention is focused on that at this time. It would be inappropriate for us to comment on Boeing's labor relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725]]></link><description><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every week here is a new challenge. Coaches want to see consistency and not ups and downs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every week here is a new challenge. Coaches want to see consistency and not ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35774]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so if I don't get picked, in my mind I'm still one of them. If I don't go, then I get to work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470</guid></item></channel></rss>