<?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[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43951]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest near-term opportunity that we have is data centers. This is not an opportunity that will last forever. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest near-term opportunity that we have is data centers. This is not an opportunity that will last forever. In the next two or three years, these data centers will be deployed and then growth will slow significantly after that. But for the time being, it is a key area to focus on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25390]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face of the world's need. The American standard of living has risen to unprecedented heights, although a large portion of the world exists on a sub-human level. Philanthropy, as we practice it, is not enough --- although the word philanthropy actually means brotherhood. Our stewardship of God's goods requires that we administer in God's name -- that is, with full awareness that the world is His and that His love is directed toward us no more fully than toward every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9697]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64999]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really is a powerful tool in bringing people together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33003]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really is a powerful tool in bringing people together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17445]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of him, but he was cruising for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent miracle, Lean through the cloud, lift the right hand of power And with a sudden lightning smite the world perfect. Yet this was not God's way, Who had the power,  But set it by, choosing the cross, the thorn,  The sorrowful wounds. Something there is, perhaps, That power destroys in passing, something supreme, To whose great value in the eyes of God That cross, that thorn, and those five wounds bear witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to leave them. They cost about $75 apiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to leave them. They cost about $75 apiece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, theresulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy celllife-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life foran individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin and Bone   That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41233]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting from about 1870 to 1915.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg.  We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart,   But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40025]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like that, you just pick up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The captive birds no longer flewTheir cadaverous bodies giving fluand Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy.. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Birdin Aviano ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The captive birds no longer flewTheir cadaverous bodies giving fluand Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy.. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Birdin Aviano and everywhere daily grew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12516</guid></item></channel></rss>