<?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[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one another as to which of two opposed dogmas was the truth, they had been arrayed against one another by more deep-seated and vital causes, and merely inscribed at the last the dogmas on their standards or chose them as watchwords or symbols. We are tired of those elaborate discussions of the fine, wire-drawn, subtle distinctions between sects, and those elaborate discussions of the principles involved in heresies, and we desire to see the real differences in life and conduct receive more attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea, into which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea, into which the more I enter the more I find, and the more I find the more I seek. The soul cannot be satiated in your abyss, for she continually hungers after you, the eternal Trinity, desiring to see you with the light of your light. As the hart desires the springs of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see you in truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're simply following through on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're simply following through on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's wreck,   Shone round him o'er the dead.    . . . .     The flames roll'd on--he would not go      Without his Father's word;       That father, faint in death below,        His voice no longer heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23982]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began collecting in a more serious fashion about then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching concepts and the approach they need to take, it is a relief in a sense because I'm able to communicate with them on a better level to understand pitching. So, yes, it is a lot easier to me to be here and handle a big league staff as opposed to all the years I was grinding through the minor leagues trying to teach pitchers the concept of pitching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53342]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41363</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[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got me interested in the sport. He really thought that I could be something special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4818]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?' (White Sox owner)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601]]></link><description><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. It's more an evolution of the company and not (about) the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32709]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a fast start, then Milford had a 12-0 run, then we held them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32030]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a fast start, then Milford had a 12-0 run, then we held them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been tremendous. Take away the scoring ability and what (Ingles) does on the floor. He brings experience. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39671]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been tremendous. Take away the scoring ability and what (Ingles) does on the floor. He brings experience. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ He's helped show a young and inexperienced team the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of Interior will adopt the states' position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.   - Frances R. Havergal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.   - Frances R. Havergal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is just mind control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is just mind control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The special forces are also doing a big job ... so we will be talking about different aspects of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The special forces are also doing a big job ... so we will be talking about different aspects of the relationship during my visit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178</guid></item></channel></rss>