<?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[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been convinced that the number of available hands is all that is important, however. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been convinced that the number of available hands is all that is important, however.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1630]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every single soul is a poem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every single soul is a poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is prejudice made plausible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar   That gave the gods their wings.    . . . .     There throbs through all the worlds that are      This heart-beat not and strong,       And shaken systems, star by star,        Awake and glow in song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played his best game for us. This is a big win for us. They're worth a ton of Heal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29494]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played his best game for us. This is a big win for us. They're worth a ton of Heal points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10158]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27478]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just told them to play better defense. We changed a couple things on our full-court press. We jumped to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just told them to play better defense. We changed a couple things on our full-court press. We jumped to a 2-3 for a little bit and didn't do too bad of a job with it. They were shooting well the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on the field, and I'd say Archie is that kind of person,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890]]></link><description><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169]]></link><description><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he couldn't and couldn't and couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59790]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16657]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51508]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a saint when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51508</guid></item></channel></rss>