<?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[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32715]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him I was going to give him a shot to go the full distance. I'm very proud of what we saw from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59942]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38728]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a number of hotels have reservations and bookings. It may become more challenging for us to find accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14912]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you'd regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12922]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59352]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall  The visions of a busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall  The visions of a busy brain,   We'll have our pleasure o'er again,    To warm the heart, to charm the sight,     Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast-anchor'd isle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast-anchor'd isle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12883]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15433]]></link><description><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've that within for which there are no plasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've that within for which there are no plasters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11150]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,or you can be full of the love you shared.You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.You can remember her only that she is gone,or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what she'd want:smile, open your eyes, love and go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may be for a day and a night,   And it well may be forever.    But whether we meet or whether we part,     (For our ways are past our knowing)      A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,       On the ways we all are going!        Here's luck!         For we know not where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,   Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guys are eager. They're ready to go. We'd like to play tonight if we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guys are eager. They're ready to go. We'd like to play tonight if we could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48226]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26245]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,   Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372]]></link><description><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The signing of Chad is outstanding because he sets the tone for our football team and the guys up front. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The signing of Chad is outstanding because he sets the tone for our football team and the guys up front. His knowledge of the game and the effort with which he plays are unparalleled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24288</guid></item></channel></rss>